We should be funding the National Shitpost Registry, it's work is necessary.

My mother-in-law used to be a vet. When she sold her practice (to a national chain that told her explicitly that they were buying it to close it down and reduce their competition yay capitalism) she took home enough euthanasia drugs and syringes to take care of herself and everybody in her family if it ever comes to that. That's probably the only thing you would actually want in a real apocalypse.

As a veteran, I thought this was going a different route when it mentioned "vets." But it's very true. I'd trust a veterinarian as a doctor in the zombie apocalypse.

Thanks to all vets for your service 🫡

It's easy to know the biology and anatomy of 1 species. Someone that can take care of a fish, a bird, and a platypus is the real MVP

OP in the image's user name is that of the first woman to hold federal office in the US. I've been to a museum about her

Not to mention, it's a policy in a lot of US hospitals that the doctor should begin and end all appointments with a customary deep french kiss to express their financial gratitude.

My vet is so good! 15 minutes after i leave i have an email that gives details of the appointment, explains any issues, and tells me when to follow up. I've asked her to be my primary care physician.

As Sir Terry Pratchett puts it:

“When a human doctor, after much bleeding and cupping, finds that a patient has died out of sheer desperation, he can always say, "Dear me, will of the gods, that will be thirty dollars please," and walk away a free man. This is because human beings are not, technically, worth anything. A good racehorse, on the other hand, may be worth twenty thousand dollars. A doctor who lets one hurry off too soon to that great paddock in the sky may well expect to hear, out of some dark alley, a voice saying something on the lines of "Mr. Chrysoprase is very upset," and find the brief remainder of his life full of incident.”

― Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay

In zombie media, the other reason they find a vet instead of a human doctor is that it ups the drama by showing how desperate they are to find any medical help, even if it's suboptimal.

I’d say I’m sorry for the title, but that would imply I was sorry for the title.

"I would like to take this moment to apologise.. TO ABSOLUTELY NOBODY"

and nor should you, that title is solid gold.

I wonder what the numbers are, as well.

Like, if there are more veterinarians in total, or if they're more spread out, then you'd expect that more of them would survive, just from that, than surgeons.

As an adult, I know, either as friends or family, two people who studied veterinary medicine in college, but only one who actually became a vet. I know four nurses. But I don't know any medical doctors or surgeons.

Does that happen a lot in zombie stuff? I can't remember any atm.

Who tf is out here using serifed fonts on their phone?

Y'all know serifs make it harder to read on screens right?

Hockey players are the second most likely athlete to survive, due to having heavy armor and a long stick in their starting kit. Long-distance bikers are the first, especially if they know how to do repairs.

Doctor Pol can make a fully stocked OR after a 15 minute run to a hardware store. A surgeon probably can't even find the cabinet with extra gauze.

Considering the correlation between surgeons and psychopathy I'm not entirely sure you'd want to find a surgeon in a post-apocalyptic world.

If the NSR says it's true, who am I to argue?