Medical Mentions are a group of graphic works. The graphic works reviewed here are books whose primary topics are not medical, and yet they cover a medical topic with some depth at some point in the work. The rest of the work might be fictional or nonfictional, while the medical portion is often technical and five pages or more. The reviewer will usually neither recommend nor discourage reading the work, except when the rest of the work is deemed outstanding or terrible, respectively. Typically, six graphic works will be part of the review with one paragraph for each. Prior Medical Mentions can be… Read More
Trouble Down South
by Matt Peters In 2021, Andrew Oh’s life took a detour. He woke up feeling a strange soreness in his groin, a pain that had no apparent cause. As the sensation persisted over the next few days, he couldn’t take his mind off the possibility that he was suffering from a hernia, a testicular torsion, or cancer. With growing anxiety, he decided to seek medical attention. But seeing a doctor neither confirmed his worst fears nor erased them. Along for his medical journey were readers of Oh’s weekly webcomic, Day and Age. Oh had been writing and illustrating the… Read More