History Webcomic / DocRat

'''Wilbur:''' Doc, [[JustForPun I couldn't sit it out!]]

** As a doctor who deals specifically with the problems of rabbits, [[https://crosstimecafe.com/Webcomics/DocRat.html?id=1030 Doctor Brazzleberry has no experience]] treating the dislocated shoulder of a predator three times his size. Fortunately, Ben has a much...[[JustForPun broader]] clientele.

The comic has a complete archive at Cross Time Cafe.[[note]]This project was several years in the making with many hiccups along the way, including the death of one of its developers. Info on its development has been moved to the discussions thread.[[/note]]

!!'''NOTE:''' The comic's website was recently rebuilt, and currently the archives are MIA. Many of the links in this trope page will be broken. A team is prepared to administer needed Wiki Magic Love the moment the archives return.[[labelnote:update]][[http://crosstimecafe.com/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=6081&sid=c5a872a6afc8e3ed52cb1fa6267e7737#p310538 As of February 13, 2016,]] Jenner's web maven, "Level_Head", has said it is taking a while getting archive-quality strips ready for the new system, so it will still be a while yet before the archives are re-populated much before 2014. As of July 2018, the archive has a gap from mid-September 2008 to early-May 2014. The series is being replayed on the fan forum, Cross Time Café, so some may be linked to their appearances on that forum until they show up on the website. [[https://crosstimecafe.com/speedreader/doc_rat.html#918 New archive announced on February 14, 2019]]. It's set up through October 2018, with the gap being 2013-2016. (There were issues with the new archive in 2022, but as of November 2022 it appears to be online again. The comic website itself is currently updated, but has a gap from September 2008 to May 2014. A handful of the affected strips were restored when Jenner posted some colourized strips in October 2021, but are posted out of chronological order for now. As of the end of 2022, the archive is fully functional.)[[/labelnote]]

* AmbiguousDisorder: It was unknown for a while the nature of Winston's dementia. It was later revealed he suffered a series of strokes due to atrial fibrillation.

''[[http://www.docrat.com.au/ Doc Rat]]'' is a [[FurryComic Furry]] WebComic produced on weekdays by Jenner (a pseudonym of a practicing doctor in Australia).

** [[https://crosstimecafe.com/Webcomics/DocRat.html?id=2469 The rams who came in to pull Quarrydog out of the mudhole]] he was trapped in, pulling up the lifeline that Jarrad and Macaulay dropped down to him, count as well.

* CPRCleanPrettyReliable: In one arc in 2009, one of his patients, bear Wilbur Fuzz, has a heart attack in his office.
** "Reliable" part is {{averted}}: Ben and Mary do CPR on him for eight minutes until paramedics arrive to defibrillate him.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** More on Wilbur Fuzz's cardiac arrest: in addition to averting the "reliable" part of CPRCleanPrettyReliable, it's noted [[https://crosstimecafe.com/Webcomics/DocRat.html?id=731 when Ben visited Wilbur in hospital during his recovery]] that he coded[[note]]went into cardiac arrest[[/note]] three more times before he was fully stabilized.
--->'''Giraffe nurse:''' Ah, yes. The STEMI[[note]]S-T segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction, your run-of-the-mill obstructive "heart attack"[[/note]] with out-of-hospital VF[[note]]ventricular fibrillation[[/note]] [cardiac] arrest, cardioverted[[note]]another term for defibrillated[[/note]] on-site. Subsequent arrests times three pre-cath lab. L.A.D. was cactus[[note]]One of his coronary arteries was obstructed; "cactus" is Aussie slang for "screwed up"[[/note]]--balloon and stent[[note]]standard balloon angioplasty[[/note]] and sent to CCU with anaemia,[[note]]the next strip would note Wilbur was suffering from unreported haemorrhoids, with the resulting anaemia contributing to the heart attack[[/note]] then urgent transfusion and top-n-tail scopes.
*** Further, as noted in PerfectSolutionFallacy, all that CPR did a number on Wilbur's ribs.
** When [[https://crosstimecafe.com/Webcomics/DocRat.html?id=900 Ben and Daniella get mugged]] and robbed, and the muggers decide taking their things isn't enough:
--->'''Ben:''' What happens now?\\
'''Daniella:''' Well, now they've taken what they want, they'll leave, and no-one gets hurt.\\
(''the muggers approach Ben and Daniella'')\\
'''Ben:''' That's not what's happening.\\
'''Daniella:''' GOD, GET READY TO FIGHT! THIS IS REAL!
** Allen killed the snake that bit Julian (and had bitten Brayden in a previous incident) with a single punch to the face. By the time help arrived with antivenom for Julian, the snake was already beyond help. Then he had to claim the snake as a legal predation.

** To ''[[ComicBook/{{Asterix}} Astérix]]'' in [[https://crosstimecafe.com/speedreader/doc_rat.html?id=1309 this scene.]] Not only is the brawl very reminiscent of the gauls' usual amusements, two of the characters are clearly channeling Fulliautomatix and Cacofonix there.