Published in IJCP January-March 2022
Lighter Reading
Lighter Side of Medicine
June 16, 2022 | ijcp
     


A NICE BOY?

One night a teenage girl brought her boyfriend home to meet her parents, and they were appalled by his appearance: leather jacket, motorcycle boots, tattoos and pierced nose.

Later, the parents pulled their daughter aside and confessed their concern. “Dear,” said the mother diplomatically, “he doesn’t seem very nice.”

“Oh please, Mom,” replied the daughter, “if he wasn’t nice, why would he be doing 500 hours of community service?”

TELL HIM I CAN’T SEE HIM

The nurse came in and said, “Doctor, there is a man here who thinks he’s invisible.”

The doctor said, “Tell him I can’t see him.”

COMPUTER POWER

A man dragged himself home and dropped his chair.

His wife was standing there with a cool drink and a comforting word.

“You look tired,” she said. “It must have been a hard day. What happened to make you so exhausted?”

“It was terrible,” the man said, “The computer broke down and all of us had to do our own thinking.”

HOW DO YOU START A FLOOD?

A doctor had bought a villa on the French Riviera. He met an old lawyer friend whom he hadn’t seen in years.

The lawyer had also bought a nearby villa. They discussed how they came to live at the Riviera. The lawyer said that the office complex he had bought caught fire, and he retired there with the fire insurance proceeds.

The doctor said that he had bought real estate in Mississippi. But the river overflowed, and he came to the Riviera with the flood insurance proceeds. He said that it was amazing how both of them ended up there in similar ways.

The lawyer looked puzzled and asked, “How do you start a flood?”

IDENTITY

A little girl, when asked her name, would reply, “I’m Mr Sugarbrown’s daughter.”

Her mother told her that must say, “I’m Jane Sugarbrown.”

The Vicar spoke to her in Sunday School and said, “Aren’t you Mr Sugarbrown’s daughter?”

She replied, “I thought I was, but her mother says she’s not.”

Dr. Good and Dr. Bad

Situation: A patient who had to get corneal transplantation done told the doctor that he was getting a donor who had insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus and medical complications resulting from the disease

No, This PERSON DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE A SUITABLE DONOR, WE WILL HAVE TO LOOK FOR ANOTHER ONE

WE CAN CONSIDER HIM AS A DONOR 

Lesson: Although corneas from donors with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus and medical complications resulting from the disease have lower mean values of endothelial cell density in contrast to other donors, a retrospective review has suggested that corneas of these people are equally likely to be included in the donor pool for corneal transplantation