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8.24.2008

Start The Week Laughing

In hope of starting your week out with a laugh, here are some true stories from medical doctors:

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," remorsefully replied 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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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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While acquainting myself with a new elderly patient, I asked, "How long have you been bed-ridden?" After a look of complete confusion she answered, "Why, not for about twenty years, when my husband was alive."
Dr. Steven Swanson, Corvallis, OR

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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 replied. 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 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 replied, "No doctor, but the song you were whistling was 'I wish I was an Oscar Meyer Wiener."
Won't admit his name

Hat Tip to Fun Meme.

5 comments :

  1. all super funny. Let me share a personal one with you from last week....Middle aged woman came in to the ER. You could tell she was extremely sore (limping, holding her side, walking very cautiously)When I was obtaining her information she informed me that she had been up on a ladder cleaning something off the roof of her house...ladder slipped and she fell. I couldn't really determine what part of her body was worse for wear so I asked her...What did you land on when you fell...she looked at me very strangely and replied...THE GROUND!!!

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  2. *chuckle*
    The lady in the last one had a great sense of humor, luckily. ;-)

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  3. Listening to people's lungs is a procedure ripe with funny moments.

    It should be simple- I tell my patients, "I am going to listen to your lungs, please take deep breaths". Then I demonstrate by placing the stethescope on myself while taking deep breaths.

    Half the time, when I say, take a deep breath, they just inhale and hold their breath. I have to say, "You can exhale now." Then I move my stethscope over to another area and they continue to just inhale and hold it. I normally listen to about six places on the lungs, so this gets repetitive after a while.

    Maybe I should just start by saying, "Just inhale and exhale" in stead of "take a deep breath".

    Some patients just about hyperventaliate when I listen to their lungs. I have to tell them to relax and not huff and puff so hard.

    Some barely breathe in or out. So I reiterate, DEEP breath. And they barely breathe in or out.

    I realize this isn't that funny. But it happens every day with my patients.

    Ok, its funny to me at least.

    DEEP BREATH everybody!

    :)

    Mrs. Hall

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  4. Listening to people's lungs is a procedure ripe with funny moments.

    It should be simple- I tell my patients, "I am going to listen to your lungs, please take deep breaths". Then I demonstrate by placing the stethescope on myself while taking deep breaths.

    Half the time, when I say, take a deep breath, they just inhale and hold their breath. I have to say, "You can exhale now." Then I move my stethscope over to another area and they continue to just inhale and hold it. I normally listen to about six places on the lungs, so this gets repetitive after a while.

    Maybe I should just start by saying, "Just inhale and exhale" in stead of "take a deep breath".

    Some patients just about hyperventaliate when I listen to their lungs. I have to tell them to relax and not huff and puff so hard.

    Some barely breathe in or out. So I reiterate, DEEP breath. And they barely breathe in or out.

    I realize this isn't that funny. But it happens every day with my patients.

    Ok, its funny to me at least.

    DEEP BREATH everybody!

    :)

    Mrs. Hall

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