You Can Keep Your Doctor

I've been on one of my periodic pulp-fiction binges lately, having looted Archive.org for issues of Weird Tales and looking up old, once-racy-but-comical pulp covers (I'm looking at YOU, Margaret Brundage). Perhaps my favorite cover is this unintentionally funny illustration:

The guy in the chair has one interesting malpractice suit. I'm not a doctor, but even as a layperson, I can say that Dr Skull's methods are unsound.