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Tuesday, December 8, 2009

A day late, and a dollar short

As you may be aware, in addition to lawyer jokes, there are also doctor jokes. There's jokes for pretty much every specialty. Some are funny, and some are not, and others are more like proverbs than jokes. For example...

How do you hide a dollar from a general surgeon? Put it in a journal.
How do you hide a dollar from an orthopedist? Put it in a textbook.
How do you hide a dollar from a heart surgeon? Tape it to their kid's forehead.
How do you hide a dollar from a plastic surgeon? Trick question. You can't!

And some more...

Internists know everything and do nothing.
Surgeons know nothing and do everything.
Pathologists know everything, and do everything, but its always a day too late to help.

I would say that the last one may be right on target. Not that pathologists actually know everything, but when you're going through and doing an autopsy, you pretty much have to go through and look at everything, all the organs and such, to figure out what went wrong. And usually, you figure it out, because everything is opened up right there in front of you. But alas, in the real world (contrary to what happens on House), at that point, it's definitely too late to apologize help.

I apologize for being a bit morbid... To help cheer you up, I'll leave you with my all-time favorite doctor joke...
 What do you call two orthopedists looking at an EKG? A double-blind study!

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