On A Claire Day by Carla Ventresca and Henry Beckett for April 15, 2024

Touche.

Research scientists are quite capable of earning $$$, if that’s the only criteria you’re interested in.

Good comeback, Paul!

I have a good friend who’s a mortician. He hasn’t had to practice on me — yet.

He shut down her dad’s argument. Claire is now banned from seeing him again.

Her father is a complete jerk.

I did biomedical lab research for a couple years; for the last 37 I’ve been a conduit between researchers and doctors (plus everybody else in Healthcare) as a medical librarian. As Dr. William Osler noted well over a century ago, “It is astonishing with how little reading a doctor can practice medicine, but it is not astonishing how badly he may do it.”