Waiting room
Waiting isn’t what it used to be. You used to be able to actually READ something xD
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A Comic that’s cursed not to be read
as the pair arrive on their floor.
Their dad appears to have wandered off;
he’s not come through the door.
The queue is their for their health
but they’ve gone straight to the head.
The Doctors will see them both now;
each will have their time on a bed.
Kaya could probably doze off again
if she’s not currently scared;
but the thing we need to wonder now
is just ‘are the Doctors prepared’?
It depends. Is the Doctor from Gallifrey or Earth? The former might be prepared. The latter, almost definitely not.
*sigh* If only RL checkups were this quick to get in!
Nice consideration on the chairs in the waiting room. Tails definitely require a change in seat design!
Take the comic with you if they’ll allow it Kaya. You might be going back to the exam room now but you may be left waiting in there for a bit before the doctor sees you.
I need to go back and check the school seats now ;)(
The schools took the cheap way out. Chairs with a separate piece for sitting and for the back. The old style chairs xD
I know, real life waiting rooms tend to be exactly that. Waiting rooms xD
Thanks. If there’s one instance where they would have chairs with accomodation for tails, it should be in the hospital ^^
I wish doctor appointments in real life was that quick, even visits to the “emergency” clinic can take hours of just sitting around waiting over here o.O
US healthcare is the worst
Yeah, that’s true. I heard that from friends before.
Usually, emergency rooms have long waiting times because they have emergencies. Those take precedence over less serious cases. You can’t have a first come first serve basis on your waiting times when one person has a heart attack and the other has pneumonia. If you have pneumonia, you’re not going to die in the next five minutes.
Pneumonia shouldn’t even be in the emergency room though unless it is so severe it is immediately life threatening. But in the US, because private insurance is so expensive, medicare coverage so hard to get, and uninsured medical care so artificially inflated in price, for many Americans emergency rooms have to double as their regular general practitioner clinic. So yes the wait times are long because emergencies take priority, but most of the people waiting shouldn’t be there at all because their health issues aren’t emergencies. The only reason they are is because the US massively mismanages its healthcare systems, and refuses to follow every other civilized country in making a central government funded universal health care system, and instead relies on a inefficent mishmash of for-profit corporations.
Having crewed 2 ER’s in med school (one level 2, one level 1) I can sympathize. In an ER, we have:
Urgent: Needs attention ASAP, but isn’t likely to worsen. Could be treated at their primary provider, but the time of onset put them outside of business hours, or patient may not have a provider. May need analgesics in the meantime. (Minor sprain, ear infection, things like that.)
Acute: Needs a gurney and monitored care. Not immediately life-threatening, but might be if left untreated. (Non-displaced fracture, kidney stone, appendicitis, meningitis without neurological deficits.)
Critical: “Get this patient some help or he gon’ die!” (Any cardiac condition, major trauma, sudden altered level of consciousness.)
At a level 1, we get a lot of criticals, largely because we have the physicians and equipment to treat that stuff.
Now you go tell that to the doctor’s office I went to today.
I JUST wanted to pick up a few prescriptions.
I didn’t even want to speak to any sort of doctor.
Still took 30 minutes of sitting around…but how do they say?
Time heals all wounds (which is why you need to wait for the doctor so very long. All part of the therapy!) 😀
That’s a new one, I need to remember that xD Time heals all wounds xD
“Time heals all wounds” I think mostly refers to emotional wounds, but; as Refugnic just demonstrated, it makes for good wordplay when used in other cases. 🙂
So do sutures, staples, and dermabond (medical-grade super glue).
Huh, is that white fox crying, or is it just a pattern on their face?
Looks like a style choice.
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/31730129/
I think she’s a maned wolf, not a fox… and I’m pretty sure the pattern is a fashion statement.
Loooooong eyelashes?
It’s a fur marking ^^
A room full of genetic anomalies and the strangest thing there is the lack of an hour wait in the lobby
Exactly! My suspension of disbelief is broken XD
They might have entered the Twilight Zone xD
Kaya seems displeased XD
Ironic given her usual lack of patience.
Yeah, but this time she was denied a comic xD
The Terror of denial of comics ^^
I love the fact that the chairs have gaps for tails. I wonder if that’s standard in this city?
The facial patterns on the female in panel 2 are weird, makes her look like she’s crying.
It’s weird that even if they have an appointment, they don’t have to wait, in my experience, doctors are usually running late. There may be a mandate that the free annual health checks are prioritised, to encourage people to attend them
They’re not standard all over the city. They’re becoming more common place now, though. Things that are more expensive to replace are left behind a bit, like public transport seating.
Ah, life. When you want the red lights, they’re all green. When you want them green, they’re all red.
I know, right xD
They don’t get much time
To sit in the waiting room
Kaya no likey
Kaya should be happy that they don’t have to wait for a couple hours xD
Special seats for anthros YAY
But really no time to read some : that’s not fun
Yeah, but maybe better than waiting for hours :p
It is interesting seeing how Kai and Kaya react to a place designed to cater to hybrid needs. Since they came from a place where they were treated like unwanted anomalies this must be an incredible change. It’s also interesting seeing so many other hybrids around. But I also noticed none seem to actually work there.
Yeah, they do take to it rather quickly. I guess coming into a better environment is easy to adjust to when you’re kids xD
The oldest hybrids are 16 years old, so not exactly working age. (I’m taking my own country for reference here. It has been brought to my attention that this is different in other countries, but here you can’t be working anything more than a student job at 16)
It varies a little here in the US. Wisconsin law allows farm work at 14, but is stricter regarding the hours worked per day and per week.
I started working in the town library at 14 here in North Carolina. Had to get a special work permit.
Ah. I guess I was thrown by that tall guy two pages ago, the one the spider kid was pointing at. He looked like he could have been in his late 20s at least. But now I’m guessing part of his hybrid form is just being unusually tall for a teenager.
The hybrids have not been around long enough to have gone through medical school yet, or even medical technician training either.
Oops, that was meant as a reply to Mr. Stargate.
I like Kaya’s expression change between the last two panels. 🙂
Thanks 😀 Always the expressive little dragon, is she :p
Kaya in the last panel : “- Sheeeesh” ^_^”
Hmm.. Hadn’t thought about it before; but, that’s a nice job with the sign in panel one too.
I love how Kaya’s threading her tail through the hole in the seat in the third panel. That’s a little thing you don’t see many artists do when dealing with a tailed anthro.
And her happy expression while doing it. Kaya’s obviously pleasantly surprised to find such a chair, anywhere! 🙂
Annnnd… Hi, Mvilu!
Aw, c’mon Kaya. You’re surprised? They took your brother almost immediately after you arrived and you’re shocked they called you immediately thereafter? LOL.
Aww, man. I read the entire comic am all caught up but I hoped I could get to the explanation before then. Oh well.
This is a really good comic and I’m glad I found it tonight.
Now I have a million questions that needs answers.
Okay, since the hybrid phenomenon is fairly new as far as medical science goes, I guess they’ll want some baselines. Somehow I’m doubtful their old town had decent medicine as far as hybrids went.
MD: “Mr. Romero, I get the feeling that your previous place of residence wasn’t exactly…tolerant of hybrids. A well-baby checkup on your son has a physician’s order for ‘immediate baptism and high level exorcism.'”
Marco: “You have no idea…”
Vitals: BP, HR, RR, SPO2. Depending on school athletics requirements, maybe an EKG.
MD: “Kaya, the electrode stickers won’t work right if you have them on your face.”
Blood: CBC, BMP, Renal.
Urine: pH, sugar, ketones, electrolytes.
And since we’re dealing with a fire-breathing hybrid, probably a test, maybe burning a target in a controlled space with a gas analyzer/sampler and a thermal camera. (A hospital might be able to jury-rig something safe, as surgery uses electrocautery and lasers in proximity to oxidizers, so safety measures against fire are vital.)
MD: “I read up on a case of an electric eel hybrid. Fried an EKG before they rigged up a surge suppressor that let them get a reading. Also they had to do exams with heavy rubber gloves.”
Kaya: “So if an electric eel hybrid has a baby with a mouse hybrid, will the baby be a pikachu hybrid?”
MD: “…that’s…actually a possibility, we don’t know about that.”
Depending on where the fuel ducts come out, they may be able to get some samples of the fire compounds noninvasively for analysis so they know exactly what they’re dealing with. (Blunt-tip syringe, “say ah,” draw some fluid.) For example, if either one of the twins gets appendicitis, they need general anesthesia, which requires putting a tube down the throat to protect the airway. While the respiratory gas is confined to the tube and the lungs, and modern gaseous anesthetics aren’t so flammable, patients may drool. The anesthesiologist can suction the mouth around the tube, but if the wrong chemicals combine (dragon fuel), the suction canister may become a bomb.