George was a pirate, but he wasn’t a very good pirate.
Every night at 8 bells, the ship’s doctor opened his window in the forecastle and yelled MEDICATION!
Pirates lined up at the window to get two cups… one with their pills, and another with water.
The pirates tossed the pills in their mouths and washed them down.
“They’re just salt pills,” said the doctor. “And I’m not a real doctor.”
Which explained why so many pirates chose to go out of network to use doctors on other ships.
Oh, and those doctors handed out yummy sugar pills.