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The Best of Wits End

Medical Humor at Its Brainiest

Harold J. Ellner M.D.

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11 November 2008
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"Who knew doctors could be flat-out funny? In fact, who knew they were so smart? For several decades, the last page of Diversion, the leisure magazine for physicians, held a monthly contest for doctors. Their best is offered in this volume.Could Julius Caesar have been an orthopedist (I came, I saw (ed), I conquered")?Would our litigious society cause MDs to experience flashes of barristopratfallophilia?When utilization review comes to Washington, one physician envisions government posts such as Joint Sheaves of Chaff.Might a sports team be known as The Heimlichs (they never choke under pressure), or The Sphincters (Nothing gets by them, and they have the best tight end in the business.)Another posits that a GI series is a military baseball competition.And somewhere in this great country there is - or certainly should be - a podiatrist named Mehta Tarsal.The surface has just been abraded.

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"Who knew doctors could be flat-out funny? In fact, who knew they were so smart? For several decades, the last page of Diversion, the leisure magazine for physicians, held a monthly contest for doctors. Their best is offered in this volume.Could Julius Caesar have been an orthopedist (I came, I saw (ed), I conquered")?Would our litigious society cause MDs to experience flashes of barristopratfallophilia?When utilization review comes to Washington, one physician envisions government posts such as Joint Sheaves of Chaff.Might a sports team be known as The Heimlichs (they never choke under pressure), or The Sphincters (Nothing gets by them, and they have the best tight end in the business.)Another posits that a GI series is a military baseball competition.And somewhere in this great country there is - or certainly should be - a podiatrist named Mehta Tarsal.The surface has just been abraded.

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