Doctors are funny!

That is, except the tactless ones that ruin the Internal Medicine clerkship for 3rd year medical students. Anyway, I found this article online from The Journal of Family Practice (Howard J. Bennett, April 1995) and it amused me. It's about humor in the medical practice, and has wit throughout. Here's a couple of my favorites:

A surgeon, an internist, and a family physician go duck hunting.

The surgeon sees a duck, shouts "Duck!" and shoots it down.

The internist sees a duck, shouts "Duck! Rule out quail! Rule out pheasant!" and shoots it down.

The family physician sees a duck and blasts it out of the sky with a burst of machine-gun fire. As the tattered carcass falls to the ground, he remarks, "I don't know what the hell it was, but I sure got it!"

Rule out quail! Rule out pheasant! Hee. It's funny because it's true. I also like this:

To the Editor:

Last year, my husband, a pulmonary fellow, sent me a valentine; he thought that the cardiac system was receiving far too much attention on that day. I thought that your readers would enjoy the valentine.

A Pulmonologist's Valentine
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Without your lungs
Your blood would be too.

Here's the whole thing, if you're interested: Humor in the Medical Literature - Editorial