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
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
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 ours 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.
Submitted by Dr. Rebecca St. Clair
5. While acquainting myself with a new elderly
patient, I asked, "How
long have you been bedridden?" After a look of complete confusion
She answered..."Why, not for about twenty years - when my husband
was alive."
Submitted by Dr. Steven Swanson
6. I was caring for a woman 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."
Submitted by Dr. Leonard Kransdorf
7. 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."
Submitted by RN no name
8. As a new, young MD doing his residency in OB,
I was quite embarrassed when performing female pelvic exams To cover
my embarrassment I had unconsciously
formed a habit of whistling softly. The middle-aged lady upon whom I
was performing this exam suddenly burst out laughing and further embarrassing
me. I looked up from my 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 MeyerWiener'!".
Dr. wouldn't submit his name
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