Laughter Is the Best Medicine by Editors of Reader's Digest

Author:Editors of Reader's Digest [Editors of Reader’s Digest]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781606524817
Publisher: Readers Digest
Published: 2012-04-11T16:00:00+00:00

The husband of one of our obstetrics patients phoned the doctor to ask if it would be okay to make love to his wife while he was taking medication for an infected foot.

“Yes, that’s fine,” the doctor replied. “Just don’t use your foot.”

—SABRINA HENDERSON

My husband, a doctor, received an emergency call from a patient: She had a fly in her ear. He suggested an old folk remedy. “Pour warm olive oil in your ear and lie down for a couple of minutes,” he said. “When you lift your head, the fly should emerge with the liquid.”

The patient thought that sounded like a good idea. But she had one question: “Which ear should I put the oil in?”

—BELINDA HIBBERT

A harried man runs into his physician’s office. “Doctor! Doctor! My wife’s in labor! But she keeps screaming, ‘Shouldn’t, couldn’t, wouldn’t, can’t!’”

“Oh, that’s okay,” says the doctor. “She’s just having contractions.”

—DONNA WINSTON

Just because one owns a business doesn’t mean it has to be all business. This sign in a dentist’s office proves that point: “Be True to Your Teeth, or They Will Be False to You.”

—JAMES WERTZ

The doctor is called late at night to a woman in labor. He goes into the room and closes the door. After a while he calls out. “Could I have some pliers, a screwdriver, and a hammer, please.”

Turning deadly pale, the husband cries out, “For God’s sake, what are you doing?”

“Take it easy, I’m only trying to open my bag.”

—BOGNÁR JÁRFÁS

The patient who came to my radiology office for abdominal X-rays was already heavily sedated. But I still had to ask her a lot of questions, the last one being, “Ma’am, where is your pain right now?”

Through her medicated fog, she answered, “He’s at work.”

—JEFF DOTY

In our pediatric office, I answered the phone to hear a frantic parent say she was at a Chinese restaurant, and her son had gotten a piece of paper lodged in his nostril.

They came over, and the doctor examined the boy. When the exam-room door opened, the doctor was holding the fortune from the child’s cookie. It read “You will prosper in medical research.”

—KERRI PACE JACKSON

Exasperated with obnoxious patients in the clinic where she’s the office manager, my aunt put up a sign that read: “If you are grouchy, irritable, or just plain mean, there will be a $10 surcharge for putting up with you.”

Clearly some people took the sign to heart. That same afternoon a patient came to her window and announced, “The doctor said he would like to see me every month for the next six months, so I’m going to pay all my $60 up front.”

—JUSTINE A. BACARISAS

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