tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14412928045070688652024-03-05T06:01:18.292-05:00Cartoon Doctor - www.drmussey.comAll about cartooning, animating and other stuff from Steven Mussey, M.D. See www.drmussey.com for more animations.Steven Mussey, M.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10254202496719571911noreply@blogger.comBlogger154125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1441292804507068865.post-43204274631598234162020-05-28T19:31:00.002-04:002020-05-28T19:31:44.151-04:00Coronavirus CartoonsIt's easy to forget how early most of us knew Covid-19 could become a real problem. Experts were downplaying it as a minor hazard compared to influenza.. Not until January 20 was there official acknowledgement the virus could spread from person to person. On that same day, I tried to buy face masks for our office and discovered a disturbing problem: They were all sold out. <div><br /></div><div>Something was brewing. Though the American Public was preoccupied with Democratic Primaries and impeachment hearings, many were also aware of the new virus in Wuhan. By January 23, I felt enough people knew of the threat to create two cartoons:</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr5gdlrKPUaws9Q61Z0lxFfNWNo0yZqekXhyphenhyphenBVNMVSrAgRmAbNoj9lz64sxJbrG0roZ1HesU-QCouuV1HB_QgBpbhNzDVpgwEEP5YtiWNhe4LDUBFzqBd898yUzykTnrrGOhuRkZsafYk/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr5gdlrKPUaws9Q61Z0lxFfNWNo0yZqekXhyphenhyphenBVNMVSrAgRmAbNoj9lz64sxJbrG0roZ1HesU-QCouuV1HB_QgBpbhNzDVpgwEEP5YtiWNhe4LDUBFzqBd898yUzykTnrrGOhuRkZsafYk/w400-h300/2020-01-27+coronavirus.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>The second cartoon was done at a time when people were entering crowded DMV's to get their new driver's license which would enable them to fly in airplanes. The lines were insane and the wait was many, many hours.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgohlE_qkqc_MKV1yjcZhPAneQRdoLLQZQo641fy_6a0owwJAPRSkpLVoB_BlqR9DSmmJTeFl06Eh6ttqzy_gCS88y497WQHOJGiLQcoa5g3SLbIpGL-fWt5PZpZjsjkQ2iEHVYyAs-DwI/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgohlE_qkqc_MKV1yjcZhPAneQRdoLLQZQo641fy_6a0owwJAPRSkpLVoB_BlqR9DSmmJTeFl06Eh6ttqzy_gCS88y497WQHOJGiLQcoa5g3SLbIpGL-fWt5PZpZjsjkQ2iEHVYyAs-DwI/w400-h300/2020-02-02+dmv+corona.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This one did not age well. I thought it was pretty hilarious at the time and I got a lot of positive feedback. Now, it looks.... kind of cliche and disturbing.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">No, it did not age well at all....</div><div><br /></div>Steven Mussey, M.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10254202496719571911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1441292804507068865.post-4488278201592208352019-04-26T22:41:00.000-04:002019-04-26T22:44:00.237-04:00Vaccines<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: black; font-family: ""arial"",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">My Measles Story:</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: ""arial"",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">If you were born in 1957, it is
presumed you had measles and do not need the vaccine. I was born in 1958
and was always told I had gotten measles as a small child.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: ""arial"",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">In 1985, I was a medical intern
working late at night. My senior resident called:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“You need to see this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is a case of measles in the ER!”
Just as I jumped into the elevator, the “Code Blue” alarm rang.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We all ran to the Code Blue (not in the ER)
and worked at the bedside for hours. By the time we were done, we had forgotten
about the case of Measles in the ER.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My
guardian angel had saved me.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: ""arial"",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">In 1989, the military placed me on
mobility status and gave me tons of vaccines and checked immune titers. I
never saw the results.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: ""arial"",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">As I was applying for hospital
privileges in 1992, I needed to provide a document saying I was immune to
measles. I obtained my military records and found, much to my horror, my
measles immune titer was ZERO!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was
totally vulnerable to Measles! </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: ""arial"",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Needless to say, I have gotten my two
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<span style="color: black; font-family: ""arial"",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">A surprising number of us born in the
late 1950s or 1960s may be vulnerable.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Steven Mussey, M.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10254202496719571911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1441292804507068865.post-26452358865334212172016-01-17T19:12:00.001-05:002016-01-17T19:15:00.296-05:00Hospital-Admin-Speak: A new languageAnyone who has ever served time on a hospital administration committee knows what I'm talking about. This is where the vast difference between the world of hospital administration versus the world of doctors and nurses becomes clear.<br />
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As a side note for those interested in the process of creating these animations:<br />
I experimented with a different method of creating the talking head portion. The result was not what I wanted, but it was interesting... <br />
Here is the comparison video:<br />
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<br />Steven Mussey, M.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10254202496719571911noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1441292804507068865.post-80054917314748672022016-01-01T11:10:00.001-05:002016-01-01T11:10:25.242-05:00Animating on Paper: The Sneeze 1992<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
I made my
last animation with tracing paper and a pen back in 1992. <o:p></o:p></div>
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At the time,
I was mainly drawing with a Summagraphics Sketch Pad attached to a desktop
Amiga Computer with a ton of peripherals. Even though they all filled a room,
it still only output low resolution video.<o:p></o:p></div>
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After a day
of traveling 23 years ago, I sat down with a black marker and my tracing pad
and drew this animation. When I got
home, I scanned the drawings, colored them and compiled them with triggered
sound events in Disney Animation Studio.
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Paper drawn
animation of this type has an interesting jitter referred to as
“Line-Boil.” Like the early animators, I
believed line-boil was a terrible imperfection.
Sometimes, however, it makes the animation interesting. <o:p></o:p></div>
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mid 1990’s and later, television grew to like line-boil and added the deliberate
exaggerated effect to many titles and animations.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Anyway, I
found the original 1992 drawing files for "The Sneeze" and, with some
effort, was able to reassemble them into this cartoon for posting.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I now use
Toon Boom Harmony and a Cintiq, which is light years away from Deluxe Paint and
Disney Animation Studio on the Amiga platform and even further away from
painting acetate sheets and filming them with a Super 8mm camera frame by
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Huge picture. You have to click on it to view it full on your computer screen.<br />
It's my version of our hospital's computer system.<br />
It consists of a gazillion various modules, some decades old, all hobbled together to create the current system. Multiple vendors are involved. Many of the sections are obsolete. I'm pretty certain vacuum tubes and mechanical switches are needed for some of the sections.Steven Mussey, M.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10254202496719571911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1441292804507068865.post-80001620042689709722015-09-27T16:14:00.004-04:002015-09-27T16:14:53.237-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This could work...Steven Mussey, M.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10254202496719571911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1441292804507068865.post-61006344523403502222015-09-27T16:14:00.001-04:002015-09-27T16:14:24.897-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Our office rule: A drug needs to be out for about two years before we consider using it. There are exceptions, of course.Steven Mussey, M.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10254202496719571911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1441292804507068865.post-56396729102688477102015-09-27T16:13:00.000-04:002015-09-27T16:13:09.772-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I used to get all bent out of shape when a cell phone went off in the room. <br />
What's the point? This is more common than you think.Steven Mussey, M.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10254202496719571911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1441292804507068865.post-7153018183128032222015-09-27T16:11:00.002-04:002015-09-27T16:11:35.144-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Dang! That's so unfair!!!Steven Mussey, M.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10254202496719571911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1441292804507068865.post-82521124648351183052015-09-27T16:10:00.000-04:002015-09-27T16:10:09.679-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is actually a redo of a multi-frame cartoon I did in residency. Newspapers need their cartoons to be in one or two square format.Steven Mussey, M.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10254202496719571911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1441292804507068865.post-82022705570903355712015-09-27T16:09:00.000-04:002015-09-27T16:09:04.596-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Get ready for flu and cold season!Steven Mussey, M.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10254202496719571911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1441292804507068865.post-56744208469522862892015-09-27T16:08:00.002-04:002015-09-27T16:08:27.346-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We had a fly in our office this week which was only a bit smaller!Steven Mussey, M.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10254202496719571911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1441292804507068865.post-2089096501935327642015-09-27T16:07:00.003-04:002015-09-27T16:07:48.501-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've actually told a couple of patients this. You have to be careful, though....Steven Mussey, M.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10254202496719571911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1441292804507068865.post-82867698514226359872015-09-27T16:06:00.003-04:002015-09-27T16:06:42.731-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Time for ad-blocker software!Steven Mussey, M.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10254202496719571911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1441292804507068865.post-65225979180589513762015-09-27T16:05:00.002-04:002015-09-27T16:05:29.114-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've always wanted to do this!Steven Mussey, M.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10254202496719571911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1441292804507068865.post-58285641314980188242015-09-27T16:04:00.003-04:002015-09-27T16:04:53.679-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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That diet, exercise and weight loss stuff never works anyway!Steven Mussey, M.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10254202496719571911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1441292804507068865.post-42307057739455950442015-09-27T16:04:00.000-04:002015-09-27T16:04:01.131-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Uh... This isn't funny.....Steven Mussey, M.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10254202496719571911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1441292804507068865.post-9249603541606848562015-09-27T16:03:00.001-04:002015-09-27T16:03:12.066-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've had several computer security specialists as patients. They claim they can break into any system, using widely available tools on the market. <br />
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Why haven't EMR companies been hacked? <br />
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Answer: They have. They just aren't telling you.<br />
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Hmmmm.....Steven Mussey, M.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10254202496719571911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1441292804507068865.post-25301513446559881592015-09-27T16:00:00.002-04:002015-09-27T16:00:14.607-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I wish this was not based on personal experience.Steven Mussey, M.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10254202496719571911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1441292804507068865.post-10292356789482659832015-09-27T15:59:00.004-04:002015-09-27T15:59:41.854-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Any upgrade. Windows 10? A new EMR update? <br />
...There WILL be casualties....Steven Mussey, M.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10254202496719571911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1441292804507068865.post-84293964304796453432015-09-27T15:58:00.003-04:002015-09-27T19:51:58.036-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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One of the big local clinics owned a CT scanner. Got a problem? You got a scan. <br />
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Funnel Cake... One of my most favorite foods! Why can't this be true?Steven Mussey, M.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10254202496719571911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1441292804507068865.post-64887263899968733212015-09-27T15:55:00.002-04:002015-09-27T15:55:24.810-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Usually after another "helpful" EMR software update!Steven Mussey, M.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10254202496719571911noreply@blogger.com0