This sounds like it might actually be true!

Stories from Physicians

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

Antonio, TX.

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, Manitoba, Canada

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'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, Norfolk, VA

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, Corvallis, OR



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, Detroit, MI



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

scheduledfor 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

AND FINALLY!!!................



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 Meyer Wiener".
Dr. wouldn't submit his name