A rat is a doctor and is handing a patient their prescription. The patient looks taken aback.
Rats cannot be doctors.
Why is the rat a doctor?
Don't worry. I wouldn't prescribe anything I haven't tested on myself.
scene: a doctor's office description: A rat is a doctor and is handing a patient their prescription. The patient looks taken aback. uncanny: Rats cannot be doctors. entities: Anthropomorphism, Rat. caption: Don't worry. I wouldn't prescribe anything I haven't tested on myself.
A joke about the role of a rat in the scientific process. Usually, rats in labs are the subject of medical testing, e.g., for new medications, to make sure they are safe prior to human trials being conducted. Here, however, the doctor is a rat --- while doctors assure patients that treatments are safe, the scientist rat has literally tested the drug on themselves in its role as a test subject.