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Harold J. Ellner, M.D.
Doctors Perform Delicate Surgery on Funny Bone
December 7th, 2008
Would a restaurant owned by a psychiatrist be called Oral Fixation' -- Does the term "GI series" refer to military ballgames' -- If an orthopedist owned a saloon, would its name be The Plastered Joint' A new book, The Best of Wits End: Medical Humor at Its Brainiest, celebrates the most brilliant puns and punch lines generated by physicians. Collected from a contest in a lifestyle magazine for doctors, this book proves that medical professionals are very funny -- in fact, funnier than most card-carrying humorists. Does a reader have to be a physician to get these jokes' Some of them, perhaps. Not every layman will understand that ... -- If an endocrinologist owned a...
Source: Pharma Investments, Ventures & Law Weekly (2008-12-07)
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