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:

  1. Wow, that actually got me to laugh out loud!

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  2. What a horrible thought!

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

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  4. 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.

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

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

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  7. 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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So wadda you think?