1.
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.
Submitted by Dr. Mark MacDonald, San Francisco
2.
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," replied the patient.
Submitted by Dr. Richard Byrnes, Seattle, WA
3.
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."
Submitted by Dr. Susan Steinberg
4.
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
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.
Submitted by Dr. Mark MacDonald, San Francisco
2.
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," replied the patient.
Submitted by Dr. Richard Byrnes, Seattle, WA
3.
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."
Submitted by Dr. Susan Steinberg
4.
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