8. Treating Human Patients and Treating Animals Patients Is The Same Thing
We all raised a smile when Hershel, halfway through prepping a bullet-ridden Carl for surgery, revealed that he wasn't actually a doctor, but a veterinarian. Now, I'm not a doctor. In actual fact, I've got no idea whether removing a bullet from a comatose human is the same as removing a bullet from a comatose dog. But thanks to The Walking Dead, I'm going to go ahead and assume that it is. Further evidence of Hershel's pet saving skills being put to good use came in Season 4 Episode 3, as he instructed Daryl and Michonne to raid a nearby veterinary college for medication to treat the people infected with flu. Again, for this reason, it should be safe to assume that human medicine and cat medicine are, in essence, identical. Whether this is also authorisation for all of us to lick our own genitals and eat our own vomit remains to be seen, however, and after Hershel's recent demise, I guess it's a question that must remain unanswered.