fresh meat, page 8
Added 2018-07-13 07:00:15 +0000 UTCthis page was originally going to be a little longer, but i ended up trimming it... about 9 panels longer, if that elucidates why. sometimes the pacing of comics is frustrating, given i have a minimum and maximum for panel count, especially because i usually want the pacing to be very specific, but i want to get through scenes in less than several months.
either way. i'll be playing with the next page's pacing to try to integrate the idea of the pacing i had before i had to trim this page.
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thank you. i agree that kim is probably wondering why the second nurse isn't saying anything. i should note: that second nurse is in the room to serve as a witness... both insofar that the pink-scrub nurse here was expecting kim to refuse to sign again and needed someone to vouch that she had served kim her rights, and that if kim were to claim malpractice, the nurse would have a reliable witness to counterclaim against that.
gray Folie
2018-07-19 02:47:49 +0000 UTCrereading this and panel 13 really struck me this time--kim's pov, looking at the second canine nurse by the door from below the hyenagriffin's body. feels like kim is maybe wondering why they aren't stopping this--the deadpan expression really nails it, like they're standing by the door to prevent escape. really sends home how depersonalized and cruel the staff are
cactus bastrop
2018-07-17 14:21:34 +0000 UTCi often feel the same way. i intended to work up to medical school when i tried college about a year after i was hospitalized for the first time (which fresh meat is heavily based on), and i suppose i rationalized the choice as "i can be one of the good ones" (if you don't count "biology is a big interest of mine"). i don't think i was capable of understanding what a system that was constructed to abuse implied about reforming it at that age; it's still unbelievable to me that you're expected to start choosing your life path before you're even done being a teenager... either way, that obviously didn't pan out. sometimes i pine to go back, but i do understand that there is no way to relinquish complicity in that situation, and that i can't even really wholeheartedly claim that i know given compassion fatigue, debt, and long hours, that i would be "one of the good doctors" for my entire life. i don't think that every person in the medical field, and, more specifically, the psychiatric field, goes in thinking about the money or power; obviously many people have followed the exact same thought process as me without dropping out. enough education on how to abuse patients under the guise of being medical best practice, how patients are almost like animals, and how you as a medical student have been granted access to enlightenment that anyone who isn't a doctor simply can't comprehend, added up over years, really seems to change people. i've heard lab tech is decent, though!
gray Folie
2018-07-15 04:16:20 +0000 UTCseeing frank depictions of how medical professionals wield power over patients makes me feel a lot more comfortable with my decision to not go to medical school. even if i could trust myself to be a “good doctor” (i’d like to think that my ability to treat others with respect isn’t contingent on not having to work 100 hour weeks in life-or-death conditions, but i don’t want to find out the hard way), how would i deal with coworkers that abuse patients? even if the abuse is happening in front of me, how would i advocate for a patient when everyone else sees the abuse as justifiable or necessary? and this assumes that i could maintain my current ideas of what constitutes abuse while my authority figures and peers say otherwise. the book “house of god” and its sequel “mount misery” are hailed as great descriptions of what it’s like to be a resident in a general hospital and a psychiatric hospital respectively. in both books the central message seems to be “the best way to treat patients is to afford them the sincerity and compassion you’d give to a peer, but everyone around you will constantly tell you that you’re doing medicine wrong and you need to abuse your patients more.” but after the main characters realize that they need to stop abusing their patients, they don’t start advocating for patient rights or try to change the system that fosters abuse. they simply flee; into psychiatric residence after the events of the first book, and out of the medical profession altogether in the second. so i’d like to think that avoiding a medical career based on desire to not take part in an abusive system is morally justified and not just cowardice. unfortunately this means that my degree is useless but hey at least i know a lot about animal physiology now. don’t go for a biology degree unless you really like teaching high schoolers or doing research/expect research to be a sustainable career.
cherrvak
2018-07-15 01:24:27 +0000 UTC
