Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for November 23, 2019

The cost of this anaesthesiologist must be cheaper than the ones I’ve had. Well knock me out !!!

What will the surgery room be like, perhaps a cave lit with torches?

“If prefer laughing gas, me brother Oog can chuckle while farting in face.”

Yeah, right. I bet Gort is “out of network”.

Primitive and painful.

Max! Fetch my sedative to get rid of these pesky memories!

CALLED IT!

Klaatu Barada Nikto!

Early Modern American Healthcare.

Yeah, well, barada nikto to you, too!

I wonder if Tim Rickard is a 3 Stooges fan. I seem to remember a scene in one of the shorts where Moe says something like “Oh, boys, administer the anesthetic.”

“Gort also provide referrals for head trauma…”

“And Gort charge more if patient squirm, make Gort miss…”

I had surgery once. They tell me they successfully removed all the bothersome bits from inside my skull but now there’s this strange echo … echo … echo …

See?!! Like I said in the previous strip, “rock to the head” :)

Ah. So that’s what he looked like under his metal skin.

He was a little indiscriminate with that laser scalpel.

Brewster, do you want to join my club?

Leg ache? Let me bring in the velociraptor…

Must be a third world space station without national health/single payer.

Don’t worry, they have modernized the Billing system. So you will be overcharged as usual.

This does drive home the point that healthcare — whether universal or otherwise — is not all created equal even if applied equally and in an egalitarian manner.

What we really need is to remove the expensive and unreliable human element from it.

We need mechanisms, mechanical, electronic, electrical, nucleonic, sonic, pneumatic, chemical, radiant, glueish or what all which could scan, test, diagnose, treat any patient quickly and release in perfect health quickly and cheaply.

I have a solution for such insurance companies: their executive officers have to use the same health facilities and use the same insurance that they sell their HMO customers.

Get ready for a trepanning!

Well, they do say the old ways are the best ways.