Thursday, August 13, 2009

No! Not that!

From my first patient of the day:

Dr. Grumpy: "What kind of neck surgery did you have?"

Mr. Neckpain: "It was a bone graft. They put a cadaver in my neck. I mean a bone graft from a cadaver, not the whole cadaver."

11 comments:

Tachyon said...

*snickers*

Stephanie Faris said...

Well, I would HOPE not!

Anonymous said...

Wow, that actually got me to laugh out loud!

Fiz said...

What a horrible thought!

amy said...

Wasn't this a Monty Python skit? If not, it should be.

Sarah Anne said...

I'd like to see THAT. Wow.

MDB said...

I would hope they aren't suddenly installing corpses in people's neck. While funny to hear, the best line I've heard was on the top of a medical chart at a small hospital on rotations, it read "Human versus Cow, Cow prevails" I didn't get much beyond that but knowing that this was in an area where the cows out number the people by a good margin, I wonder about the incident and wonder if a car was involved or some other really strange activities were going on.

Anonymous said...

does he have little round nobs sticking out of the sides of his neck?

Ron said...

hmm. guess this country's health care system really is messed up. Bring on the 'death panels.'

The running yogi said...

Your blog makes me laugh. Out loud.

Jenna Shimmin said...

WOW!!! I lol-ed in my office w/several people walking by...and didn't even care! That's just awesome!

 
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