Trust me [he's] a doctor

[stormseye.livejournal.com]

This post reminded me of a blog I read years ago. Polite Dissent is a blog run by a doctor who watches House and reads comic books. I think it's a good resource for people looking for medical info, or if the have questions about something they saw in media. Gail Simone even consulted him in a scene for Birds of Prey.


Here's the entry I was thinking of, the Initiative trains with CPR

Steve seems to know what he's doing

Here the Vision does not practice good first aid.

Here's Storm doing things right, then wrong

The doctor also seems to like Iron Man as he's looked at Tony a lot. Like his heart issues, Extremis, his mechanical heart, Tony cutting off his heel that one time, that time he stopped a bad guy's heart (both the starting and stopping of the heart were wrong, no wonder Steve was so mad.) and the good Doctor liked The Red Zone storyline.

And for more info on medicine in comics

The Top 5 Most Common Medical Errors by Comic Writers

Five Reasons Why Comic Book Medicine is Better than Real World Medicine

Pregnancy in Comics

A fun Quiz on Comic book diseases

Super Transfusion: When Super Hero blood Transfusions did and didn't work

A Correspondence Course in Medical Reviews, Lesson 1: Nasal Canulas aka, when to use those nose tube things

A Correspondence Course in Medical Reviews, Lesson 2: Administering Medication - when to use pills or IV's etc

Would You Be a Good Comic Book Doctor? Can you tell the difference between a Heart Attack or an angry Spirit possession?

The Best (and Worst) Comic Book Medicine of 2009 (with links to the previous years)

And for artists- Top Five Six Most Common Comic Book Artist Medical Errors

Also, a vast collection of psychic nose bleeds.

Does anyone else have good resources for medical information?