Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for November 25, 2012

I share rat’s frustration.

I suppose a doctor’s advice can substitute for a reflex hammer at times.

If you’re going to mess up your foot on someone’s face….use the bad foot…it’s already messed up.

Who said he used a foot at all?

Today’s background music: “Ain’t That a Kick in the Head” by Dean Martin.

Be logical, folks! To kick the silly doc in his face, Rat had to brace, kung fu-like; obviously, on his good foot. So, Pig, Rat kicked with his already-injured foot, as finale suggested he should.

My Right Foot

A boot to the head does not require a foot to be in the boot.

I’m with Rat this time.

Laugh out loud – great stuff.

give rat a full and free pardon

I’m with Rat this time also.

Well, he’s probably suffering from repetitive stress injury, so the doctor’s advice is actually sound.

How exactly do you give a foot a rest? Lay in bed immobile for days? Walk on your hands? Roll everywhere? How? (…and don’t say, “buy a footrest”; they don’t work either …)

If I could, I’d marry this post, after retweeting it and liking it. Well said, Tacopielvr!

Ahhhh, a kick in the face. The gift that keeps on giving!

Doctor took 2 aspirins and saw his doc next morning

Funny stuff!!! Only 15 minutes in the examination room?I’ll never forget when I broke my ankle and everybody in the doctor’s office came in and wiggled it around. Then they each said ’ Yes, it’s broken" as I lays there in absolute pain!

I resent having to go to a doctor when I already know what I need, but don’t have the authority to prescribe it.

@Nabu: I was drilling a hole in a stone wall with a 1050 W pneumatic drill (1 1 /4 HP) and it stuck, twisted and hit me on my glasses, which broke.Luckily all I got was get a bit dizzy from the strike, and it was high time for a new pair of glasses!

yeah doctors don’t like it when you kick them in the face

After a recent fall, my doctor told me to go to the ER for an X-ray. My diagnosis was that my time was more valuable than that, so I went home and rested.

YAY RAT!

I have been to emergency rooms in the US several times—never waited less than six hours. Think we couldn’t use improvement?

Good thing Rat wasn’t there for diarrhea….

And the US has the best health care system in the world- but ONLY if you have $$$

I love Rat. He says and does the things we could not and would not. But we feel good! We say “I hope the hospital administrators read this”. Most of the other strips leave you feeling like a victim – like Ziggy. Pastis, like Schulz, is a national treasure. I wonder how many people realize just how far Pearls can go.

Please man please – go live somewhere else.

Brilliant, as usual.

Wait, it took Rat two hours to get a comment from his doctor? Now we know that nothing happened to his foot as otherwise it would have taken at least two and a half to three hours to hear from his doctor if something happened.

I love this comic-its hillarious

The biggest problem with Obamacare is it penalizes and punishes the responsible payer who keeps themselves in good health. I pay for all medical expenses out of pocket, I work out and stay healthy. Thus I average around 2,000 dollars a year in family medical expenses. Obamacare says I need to spend approx 15,000 dollars a year. Why should I? I pay in full ‘cash’ for all my healthcare.

I know not everyone can do this but if I have to start paying a penality to the IRS for not buying insurance then I may just start not paying for my ER visits and stuff. I am self employed they’ll never be able to collect thru garnishments and such.

Obamacare seems to be to be the perfect system for turning responsible people like me into not responsible people.

angelfiredragon: Uh Huh. Sure, thats the problem all right. Now. Give me your job, and you can have my life.

GO RAT!

And he was billed a ridiculous amount of money that cost more than his college tuition.

I went to see my eye doctor yesterday. After about 45 minutes in the waiting room, I was called in and an assistant did a preliminary exam of my eyes. I have advanced macular degeneration in my left eye, which means I have lost the central vision. If I look straight at a full moon and cover my right eye, the moon disappears completely. If I look a short distance away I can see the moon with peripheral vision. There is no cure for macular degeneration. My right eye has a cataract that makes everything dim, like looking through a foggy window. A cataract can be removed and replaced with an artificial lens. I have a hard time reading anything, even my computer screen when it is zoomed in. Black text looks pale gray. This has been getting worse for about a year, so I thought I was ready for surgery. Anyway, after the preliminary exam, I was shown a second waiting room and told to wait for the doctor. This wait was only fifteen minutes. The doc checked my eyes, spending maybe ten minutes. Then he told me to come back in SIX MONTHS! He said I can see well enough to drive, so I am okay. I will not drive in even moderate traffic, so I’m lucky to live in a small town. I was very disappointed in the doctor’s decision, but I did not think of kicking him. I am 75, and the doctor is 96. He is still sharp-minded but looks very feeble. I might think differently about my other doctor, a much younger guy. He is fair game.