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1. about 12 hours ago on The Argyle Sweater

   An exquisite corpse.

2. 1 day ago on Herman

   Everyone remembers Frank Sinatra’s romantic rendering of “Three Coins in the Meter.”

3. 1 day ago on Crankshaft

   That is why you don’t do x-rays or other imaging for acute back pain unless there are red flag signs and/or symptoms.

4. 1 day ago on Close to Home

   Lars and the Real Girl.

5. 1 day ago on The Argyle Sweater

   Best prescription story from my years as a resident:

   The nurses called us all over to interpret this hospital order for a diabetic patient:

   1 PBJSWBCCO qHS prn hypoglycemia

   We were all stumped until one nurse with children solved the problem. Scroll down for answer.

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   One peanut butter and jelly sandwich on white bread with crusts cut off at bedtime as needed for low blood sugar.

   They don’t teach you that one in medical school.

6. 1 day ago on The Argyle Sweater

   For the young’uns: Instead of sending your prescription electronically, doctors had to write it on a slip of paper that you would take to the pharmacy.

   It was a running joke that their handwriting was so bad that the pharmacists and the patient would have to huddle together to interpret it with hilarious—and sometimes fatal—results.

7. 3 days ago on Get Fuzzy

   Indeed. People who can’t get away from fire ants—babies and the infirmed—can be killed by them.

8. 4 days ago on Strange Brew

   Wallace in “My Dinner with Grommet.”

9. 4 days ago on Get Fuzzy

   Kinda like fire ants.

10. 4 days ago on The Born Loser

    “And at the top of the hour, 45 minutes of Mickey Hart rhythmically pounding on a hollow tree trunk.”