A man runs 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


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," remorsed the patient.

-Dr. Richard Byrnes, Seattle, WA


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 infarction. 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



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



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! Packaging has since
been changed; the instructions include: 'removal of the old patch before
applying a new one'.

-Dr. Rebecca St. Clair, Norfolk, VA


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."

-Dr. Steven Swanson, Corvallis, OR

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

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."

--Have a good day and keep out of the DR's Office..... [Ahmad]