Close to Home by John McPherson for July 02, 2024

no need to needle him about it doc!

A stabbing, piercing one

“Yeah, but it’s no longer my worst problem; so thanks I guess?”

But his voodoo doll is in agony.

Well, you’ve heard of yin-yang. no? We gonna stick the next one in your yin-yang!

Must be arthritis…

The Butterfly Effect

Roll over and I’ll stick some needles in your back too.

What a prick!

There’s still that one area (where he’s wearing hearts) …

He’s going to need a bigger needle.

I would have gone with “Epsilon” acupuncture.

Just amputate that head-thing. No more headaches without it!

There’s no evidence showing acupuncture works. Practitioners can’t even agree where the “nerve bundles” are

Not sure that is actually Bleeb today. If so, he looks a little bit off.

I think you missed one spot!

What a p_rick!

Tried it twice. Didn’t work one bit.

One of those should hit the right spot … eventually.

FUNNY!

My ingrown toenail feels great. :)

Maybe targeting the wrong head.

He should probably stop going to acupuncture. I mean, what’s the point?

maybe try some 16 penny common framing nails??

“Well”, the patient responds, “You stuck me everywhere except in my head”.

I’d hate to see what he does for a pain in the @ss. Show himself out?

It must be a sinus headache. Here, blow your nose, but let me step out of the room first.

Now he identifies as a porcupine

His tongue is still untouched, and it’s much closer to where a headache hurts than his legs are.

human pincushion

Then why were global life expectancies so low before the advent of modern medicine? There is no evidence that acupuncture is anything other than a placebo effect. There is no way it can help treat viral and bacterial infections.

Acupuncture, like homeopathy, is pure bubkus. It has no scientific basis and has at best a placebo effect. If Eastern Medicine is so effective and rife with wisdom hidden from science based medicine, then explain the sharp rise in life expectancy across the globe starting in the 20th Century with the advent of science based medicine. I will rely on vaccines, blood transfusions and penicillin any day of the week.