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.

Submitted by Dr. Mark MacDonald , San Francisco


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,'. . .replied the patient.

Submitted by Dr. Richard Byrnes, Seattle , WA


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.'

Submitted by Dr. Steven Swanson-Corvallis , OR