Outrail posted:

Let's see... *keyboard clacking*... Three day stay for appendix.... Plus standard charges... *keyboard clacks*... And you owe... Oh wait, minus bus stop ad discount *clacking continues*.... $387,582.48. Cash or credit card?

Byzantine posted:

Still cheaper than the hospital.

Koishi Komeiji posted:

No they're actually way more expensive and they are always staffed by the stupidest doctors and nurses you can legally hire. They pop up in poor neighborhoods and exist to extract as much money as they can from uninsured poors. It's like if a payday loan office opened up a clinic.

Enfys posted:

I work hard. Guess I should tell my boss to raise my salary to $25 million.

Mr. Lobe posted:

imagine the kind of mercenary rear end in a top hat you would have to be to willingly work as a medical professional at a place like that

Mr. Lobe posted:

imagine the kind of mercenary rear end in a top hat you would have to be to willingly work as a medical professional at a place like that

Enfys posted:

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

those loans aren't gonna pay themselves and repayment starts during residency when you're makin way less than the nurses

p sure that's also where they get the lab coat wearing mouthpieces for commercials

Enfys posted:

That child has been taken hostage.

Mr. Lobe posted:

this reminds me of a story that is rather appropriate for this thread.

I imagine many of you are familiar with this image:



it is the Caduceus, a symbol that has been associated with medicine in the US since the US Army Medical Corps adopted it in 1902. you might think, is this not an ancient symbol of medicine? not quite! you see, an officer in that medical corps mixed up the Caduceus with the actual ancient symbol of medicine, the Rod of Asclepius:



the mistake has stuck with us since. you see, Asclepius was the god of medicine and healing, a figure to whom the ancient Greeks would make offerings to cure their ailments. the Caduceus, on the other hand, was the symbol of Hermes, in particular with respect to his aspect as god of commerce. it is poetic that in the industrialized nation with the most commodified healthcare system, a typographic error would make the former symbol predominant in the iconography of medicine.

Shame Boy posted:

Yeah that's how jobs work, more people who need jobs means more jobs are spontaneously created due to the demand for jobs!

Enfys posted:

That child has been taken hostage.

Megillah Gorilla posted:

"$100 off you next bill."

loving hell, America.

ponzicar posted:

I remember thinking, as smart phones started to become mainstream, that an age in which everyone carried a computer in their pocket would lead to a revolution in video games. Instead it lead to a revolution in monetization schemes and addiction cultivation.

Away all Goats posted:

Saw this post in the android gaming thread and thought of you guys

ponzicar posted:

I remember thinking, as smart phones started to become mainstream, that an age in which everyone carried a computer in their pocket would lead to a revolution in video games. Instead it lead to a revolution in monetization schemes and addiction cultivation. 

Mr. Lobe posted:

this reminds me of a story that is rather appropriate for this thread.

I imagine many of you are familiar with this image:



it is the Caduceus, a symbol that has been associated with medicine in the US since the US Army Medical Corps adopted it in 1902. you might think, is this not an ancient symbol of medicine? not quite! you see, an officer in that medical corps mixed up the Caduceus with the actual ancient symbol of medicine, the Rod of Asclepius:



the mistake has stuck with us since. you see, Asclepius was the god of medicine and healing, a figure to whom the ancient Greeks would make offerings to cure their ailments. the Caduceus, on the other hand, was the symbol of Hermes, in particular with respect to his aspect as god of commerce. it is poetic that in the industrialized nation with the most commodified healthcare system, a typographic error would make the former symbol predominant in the iconography of medicine.

Tetracube posted:

ScrubLeague posted:

The Bloop posted:

This thing is a loving mess but WOWZA that buried lede

Imagined posted:

$16,000 in finance charges on a $22,000 car

double negative posted:

really excited about creating demand for extended careers that follow multiple paths to the inevitable end of dying on the floor of a walmart supercenter

Mr. Lobe posted:

Iron Crowned posted:

Fun fact: The snake is speculated to actually be a tape worm, because an old method of removing tape worms was to pull them out of your butt by rolling them around a stick.

ThatBasqueGuy posted:

did that work?

ThatBasqueGuy posted:

did that work?

Away all Goats posted:

Saw this post in the android gaming thread and thought of you guys

quote:

I remember thinking, as smart phones started to become mainstream, that an age in which everyone carried a computer in their pocket would lead to a revolution in video games. Instead it lead to a revolution in monetization schemes and addiction cultivation.

ScrubLeague posted:

Imagined posted:

$16,000 in finance charges on a $22,000 car

necroid posted:

I guess not because unless you take out the head it's going to replicate itself without issue, and those fuckers have hooks to make sure they never let go

Iron Crowned posted:

Fun fact: The snake is speculated to actually be a tape worm, because an old method of removing tape worms was to pull them out of your butt by rolling them around a stick.