Medical Humour

David Morton

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Medical Reports:The following quotes were taken from actual medical records dictated by doctors.

By the time he was admitted, his rapid heart had stopped, and he was feeling better.
Patient has chest pain if she lies on her left side for over a year.
The patient states there is a burning pain in his penis which goes to his feet.
On the second day the knee was better and on the third day it had completely disappeared.
She has had no rigors or shaking chills, but her husband states she was very hot in bed last night.
I will be happy to go into her GI system; she seems ready and anxious.
Patient was released to outpatient department without dressing. I have suggested that he loosen his pants before standing, and then, when he stands with the help of his wife, they should fall to the floor.
The patient is tearful and crying constantly. She also appears to be depressed.
Discharge status: Alive but without permission. The patient will need disposition, and therefore we will get Dr. Blank to dispose of him.
Healthy appearing decrepit 69 year-old male, mentally alert but forgetful.
The patient refused an autopsy.
The patient has no past history of suicides.
The patient expired on the floor uneventfully.
Patient has left his white blood cells at another hospital.
Patient was becoming more demented with urinary frequency.
The patient's past medical history has been remarkably insignificant with only a 40 pound weight gain in the past three days.
She slipped on the ice and apparently her legs went in separate directions in early December.
The patient experienced sudden onset of severe shortness of breath with a picture of acute pulmonary edema at home while having sex which gradually deteriorated in the emergency room.
The patient left the hospital feeling much better except for her original complaints.
The baby was delivered, the cord clamped and cut and handed to the pediatrician, who breathed and cried immediately.
Exam of genitalia reveals that he is circus sized.
The skin was moist and dry.
Rectal exam revealed a normal size thyroid
The patient had waffles for breakfast and anorexia for lunch.
She stated that she had been constipated for most of her life until 1989 when she got a divorce.
Between you and me, we ought to be able to get this lady pregnant.
The patient was in his usual state of good health until his airplane ran out of gas and crashed.
I saw your patient today, who is still under our car for physical therapy.
The patient lives at home with his mother, father, and pet turtle, who is presently enrolled in day care three times a week.
Bleeding started in the rectal area and continued all the way to Los Angeles.
Both breasts are equal and reactive to light and accommodation.
She is numb from her toes down.
Exam of genitalia was completely negative except for the right foot.
While in the emergency room, she was examined, Xrated and sent home.
The lab test indicated abnormal lover function.
The patient was to have a bowel resection. However he took a job as a stockbroker instead.
Occasional, constant, infrequent headaches.
Coming from Detroit, this man has no children.
Examination reveals a well developed male lying in bed with his family in no distress.
Patient was alert and unresponsive.
When she fainted, her eyes rolled around the room.
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Hi David,

Very funny but a bit scary to think that we place our lives in the hands of people who write those reports!

History will tell us that Prof Chris Barnard performed the world's first heart transplant operation at the Groote Schuur (big barn) hospital in Cape Town in 1967.

When you leave Cape Town central and head towards the southern suburbs you pass the hopital about two miles away on a dual carriageway. As you approach the hospital you enter a fast, sweeping left handed bend with the hospital to the left of the bend, which is noted for a relatively high accident rate.

Shortly after the operation, which hit the world headlines, some joker made a professional sign which he erected on the inside of the bend with the message, 'SLOW DOWN, CHRIS BARNARD IS WAITING FOR YOU.'

Amazing how heart transplants are now common place.

Another one. A guy went to collect his Lamborghini after a major service. The service adviser asked him if he perhaps had a pacemaker and if he did he hoped that he had recently changed the battery so that he could handle the shock of the bill.

Andre 40
 
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