Friday, October 18, 2013

Correct!

Dr. Grumpy: "Have you had any surgeries?"

Mr. Cecum: "I've had a unilateral appendectomy."

13 comments:

bobbie said...

Give that man a cee-gar!

Library-Gryffon said...

I wonder what she actually meant because I'd be a little concerned about someone who had to have a bi-lateral one.

Anonymous said...

I hear the bilateral appy is hardly ever done anymore. Ha ha.

brent said...

Makes sense. I've never heard of a bilateral one.

Retired APRN said...

Unilateral, eh? Didn't even give the poor appy a chance to express its opinion, I'll wager!

Anonymous said...

He was technically correct. The best kind of correct.

Anonymous said...

I've had the Trilateral Commission.

Anonymous said...

"And later I'm planning a unilateral disarmament."

Anonymous said...

Like the artisanal (retention) pharmacist usage of the language in the eyedrop signatura: Put one drop in 'BOTH' eyes (like someone is going to split an eyedrop and put half of it in the right lower inner eyelid and the other half of the eyedrop in the other side) instead of 'one drop in each eye' (whether one, two, or three or more eyes are involved).

Anonymous said...

"...and also a bilateral male hysterectomy"

bluetoothbuddha said...

This from the radiologist who did a US scan on one of our neonates recently:
"Hydronephrosis of both kidneys"

Lateral thinking is what it is...

Anonymous said...

Your patient apparently got ripped off by his surgeon. He might as well have had the bilateral appendectomy and gotten the whole thing over with once and for all......

Anonymous said...

"Which is a pity, because I was really hoping to make it a mutual appendectomy. But the surgeon wasn't interested. But maybe the flowers I sent him this morning will do the trick."

 
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