A man
comes into the ER and yells, "My wife's going to have her baby in the
cab!" I grabbed my stuff, rushed out to the cab, lifted the lady's dress,
and began to take off her underwear. Suddenly I noticed that there were
several cabs, and I was in the wrong one!
Dr. Mark MacDonald, San Antonio, TX |
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At the beginning of my shift I placed a
stethoscope on an elderly and slightly deaf female patient's anterior
chest wall. "Big breaths," I instructed. "Yes, they used to be," remorse
the patient.
![]() Dr. Richard Byrnes, Seattle, WA |
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One day I had to be the bearer of bad news
when I told a wife that her husband had died of a massive myocardial
infarct. Not more than five
minutes later, I heard her reporting to the rest of the family that he had
died of a "massive internal fart."
Dr. Susan Steinberg, Manitoba, Canada |
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I was performing a complete physical,
including the visual acuity test. I placed the patient twenty feet from
the chart and began, "Cover your right eye with your hand." He read the
20/20 line perfectly. "Now your left." Again, a flawless read. "Now
both," I requested. There was silence. He couldn't even read the large E
on the top line. I turned and discovered
that
he had done exactly what I had asked; he was standing there with both his
eyes covered. I was laughing too hard to finish the exam.
Dr. Matthew Theodropolous, Worcester, MA |
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During a patient's two week follow-up
appointment with his cardiologist,
he informed me, his doctor, that he was having trouble with one of his
medications. "Which one?" I asked. "The patch. The nurse told me to put
on a new one every six hours and now I'm running out of places to put
it!" I had him quickly undress and discovered what I hoped I wouldn't
see... Yes, the man had over fifty patches on his body! Now the
instructions include removal of the old patch before applying a new one.
Dr. Rebecca St. Clair, Norfolk, VA |
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I was caring for a woman from Kentucky and
asked, "So how's your
breakfast this morning?" "It's very good except for the Kentucky Jelly. I
can't seem to get used to the taste," the patient said. I then asked to
see the jelly and the woman produced a foil packet labeled "KY Jelly."
Dr. Leonard Kransdorf, Detroit, MI |
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A Nurse was on duty in the Emergency Room,
when a young woman with purple hair styled into a punk rocker Mohawk,
sporting a variety of tattoos, and wearing strange clothing, entered. It
was quickly determined that the patient had acute appendicitis; so she was
scheduled for
immediate
surgery. When she was completely disrobed on the operating table, the
staff noticed that her pubic hair had been dyed green, and above it there
was a tattoo that read, "Keep off the grass." Once the surgery was
completed, the surgeon wrote a short note on the patient's dressing, which
said "Sorry, had to mow the lawn."and Finally . . . |
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A new, young MD doing his residency in OB
was quite embarrassed performing female pelvic exams. To cover his
embarrassment he had unconsciously formed a habit of whistling softly.
The middle aged lady upon whom he was performing this exam suddenly burst
out laughing and further embarrassed him. He looked up from his work and
sheepishly
said, "I'm sorry. Was I tickling you?" She said, "No doctor, but the
song you were whistling was 'I wish I was an Oscar
Meyer Wiener'."
--this doctor won't admit his name
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