Medical Mishaps


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Just got these. They're pretty good.

>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.

>

>Dr. Mark MacDonald, San Antonio, TX

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>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," remorsed the patient.

>

>Dr. Richard Byrnes, Seattle, WA

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>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."

>Dr. Susan Steinberg, Manitoba, Canada

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>I was performing a complete physical, including the visual acuity

test.

>I placed the patient twenty feet from the chart and began, "Cover your

>right eye with your hand." He read the 20/20 line perfectly. "Now

>your left." Again, a flawless read. "Now both," I requested. There

>was silence. He couldn't even read the large E on the top line. I

>turned and discovered that he had done exactly what I had asked; he

was

>standing there with both his eyes covered. I was laughing too hard to

>finish the exam.

>Dr. Matthew Theodropolous, Worcester, MA

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>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.

>Dr. Rebecca St. Clair, Norfolk, VA

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>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."

>Dr. Steven Swanson, Corvallis, OR

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>I was caring for a woman from Kentucky 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.

>then asked to see the jelly and the woman produced a foil packet

>labeled "KY Jelly."

>Dr. Leonard Kransdorf, Detroit, MI

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>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

scheduled

>for 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."

>

>and finally....................................

>

>A new, young MD doing his residency in OB was quite embarrass ed

>performing female pelvic exams. To cover his embarrassment he had

>unconsciously formed a habit of whistling softly. The middle-aged lady

>upon whom he was performing this exam suddenly burst out laughing and

>further embarrassed him. He looked up from his 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 admit his name...............

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