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From mob@mit-amt.media.mit.edu Thu Nov 3 21:30:10 1988
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From: mob@mit-amt.media.mit.edu (Mario O. Bourgoin)
Subject: Death and the Doctor
Keywords: heard it, smirk
Date: 4 Nov 88 03:30:10 GMT
Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge MA
At the hospital, a doctor is training an intern on how to announce bad
news to the patients. The doctor tells the intern ``This man in 305
is going to die in six months. Go in and tell him.'' The intern
boldly walk into the room and up to the man and tells him ``You're
gonna die!'' The man has a heart attack and dies on the spot. The
doctor quickly takes the intern aside and cautions him ``You were much
too abrupt in announcing the news to that man. You've got to take it
easy, work your way up to the subject. Now this man in 310 has but a
week to live. Go in and tell him, but gently now!'' The intern goes
softly into the room, humming to himself, cheerily opens the drapes to
let the sun in, walks up to the man and tells him ``Good morning!
What a wonderful day, no? Say... Guess who's going to die soon?''
