Thursday, August 20, 2015

Good news/bad news

Urologist: "I have some good news and some bad news for you, sir."

Patient: "what's the bad news?"

Urologist: "you are retaining urine and we have to put a catheter back in your bladder."

Patient: "And what's the good news?"

Urologist: "Obama is only going to be president for another 14 months."

6 comments:

  1. Huh? But isn't Obama trying to ease the medical insurance company hegemony?*

    *I'm a Brit, love the NHS.

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  2. Huh? But isn't Obama trying to ease the medical insurance company hegemony?*

    *I'm a Brit, love the NHS.

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  3. Urologist isn't very good at math (or civics) I guess?

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  4. Is it really appropriate to be talking politics with patients?

    The first time I heard a doc make a political joke to a patient, the patient got offended, fired the doctor. and filed a formal complaint with the medical director. The service had to shuffle their schedules so that doc was never again on call for my unit while the patient was there. It was a giant pain in the ass.

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