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Silverfoxesclub-digest
Tuesday, June 12 2001
Volume 01 : Number 269

In this issue:

-Humor: Medical
-Humor: There's a word for it!

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From: "luvhog" luvhog@ameritech.net
Subject: Humor: Medical

What the hell do you do for 7 hours waiting at the hospital? Next time you are in the hospital for that length of time with absolutely nothing to do...

1. Find a patient undergoing a sex change. Switch the placards with a patient getting something like his tonsils removed.
2. Find some of that Lidocane gel, the stuff that numbs on contact with the skin. Coat the inside of a blood pressure cuff, and a few tongue depressors...sit back and enjoy the show.
3. Walk the halls wearing a black robe with a hood and carrying a scythe.
4. Sneak into the office, page Dr. Kevorkian, and give him the room number of a patient undergoing tonsil removal.
5. Buy a fake voodoo doll. Show it to your neighbor. Then keep it out of sight until the next time he complains of a new ailment. Then, stick a pin in the prescribed area, and leave the doll out in plain sight of your neighbor. Continue this trend until neighbor is committed to the mental ward.
6. Pass word around that the new nurse will perform questionable acts {free} if you give her the code, "The blue monkey flies at noon." Watch her bewildered face as a crowd of drooling old men in walkers chanting that cryptic phrase chases her down the hall.
*****
Just what is an HMO

Q. What does HMO stand for?
A. This is actually a variation of the phrase, "Hey, Moe!" Its roots go back to a concept pioneered by Doctor Moe Howard, who discovered that a patient could be made to forget about the pain in his foot if he was kicked in the balls hard enough. Modern practice replaces the physical kick with hi-tech equivalents such as voice mail, referral slips, fourth opinions, four hour drives to your "Nearest Clinic" and a nurse named Grazelda who's only job is to annoy the hell out of you so that you will go away, never to return again ... but the result remains the same.

Q. Do all diagnostic procedures require pre-certification?
A. No. Only those you need. Exceptions are made for young co-eds with rather large breasts, but even then the doctors will generally get second and third opinions.

Q. I just joined a new HMO. How difficult will it be to choose the doctor I want?
A. Just slightly more difficult than choosing your parents, and slightly less difficult than choosing an honest President. Your insurer will provide you with a book listing all the doctors who were participating in the plan at the time the information was gathered. These doctors basically fall into three categories -- those who are no longer accepting new patients, those who will see you but are no longer part of the plan or those who have had their medical licenses revoked, and have no insurance, but through the grace of God and a few well placed called to a local congressman, have been granted a reprieve.

There is a reason why they classify you into the 3 K's ...
1)Kiss My Ass Doctors
2)Kick Ass Rebels
3)Kevorkians

But don't worry -- there is always one available qualified Doctor in every HMO who will see you, who is still in the plan and accepting new patients has an office just a half day's drive away!

Q. What are pre-existing conditions?
A. This is a phrase used by the grammatically challenged when they want to talk about existing conditions. Unfortunately, we appear to be pre-stuck with it. These are not limited to but include any genetic condition that you may have been pre-disposed to, any condition that is of a hereditary nature, any conditions that is related to anything you eat or may have eaten in the past, any condition that is related to first or second hand smoke, any condition that is prevalent to your race, sex, sexual preference or heritage, and, any condition that you have come in contact with earlier in your life. Severing a limb, from being hit by a runaway truck while standing in line at the "It's a small world" ride at Disney, may be excluded if you have come in contact with any magnets in the past several months.

Q. Well, can I get coverage for my pre-existing conditions?
A. Certainly, as long as they don't require any treatment.

Q. What happens if I want to try alternative forms of medicine?
A. You'll need to find alternative forms of payment.

Q. What costs are actually covered by my insurance?

Q. My pharmacy plan only covers generic drugs, but I need the name brand. I tried the generic medication, but it gave me a stomach ache. What should I do?
A. Get someone to kick you in the balls.

Q. I have an 80/20 plan with a $200 deductible and a $2,000 yearly cap. My insurer reimbursed the doctor for my out-patient surgery, but I'd already paid my bill. What should I do?
A. You have two choices. Your doctor can sign the reimbursement check over to you, or you can ask him to invest the money for you in one of those great offers that only doctors and dentists hear about, like windmill farms, frog hatcheries or nuclear penile implants. The odds of you getting your doctor to sign the check over are about as high as the odds are against the doctor, not losing his shirt on any of his hot tip investments.

Q. What should I do if I get sick while traveling?
A. Try sitting in a different part of the bus.

Q. No, I mean what if I'm away from home and I get sick?
A. You really shouldn't do that. You'll have a hard time seeing your primary care physician. It's best to wait until you return, and then get sick.

Q. I think I need to see a specialist, but my doctor insists he can handle my problem. Can a general practitioner really perform a heart transplant right in his office?
A. Hard to say, but considering that all you're risking is the $10 co-payment, there's no harm giving him a shot at it. Insist on Advil over Tylenol though, and request a scalpel that was not used to cut his pastrami sandwich for lunch the day before.

Q. What accounts for the largest portion of health care costs?
A. Doctors trying to recoup their investment losses in windmill farms, frog hatcheries and nuclear penile implants.

Q. Will health care be any different ten years from now?
A. No, but if you call right now, you might get an appointment by then.
***** The following are actual medical records taken from patients charts around North America. And we wonder why holistic medicine is on the rise.

The baby was delivered, the cord clamped and cut and handed to the pediatrician, who breathed and cried immediately.

Exam of genitalia reveals that he is circus sized.

The skin was moist and dry.

Rectal exam revealed a normal size thyroid.

She stated that she had been constipated for most of her life until 1989 when she got a divorce.

Between you and me, we ought to be able to get this lady pregnant.

The patient was in his usual state of good health until his airplane ran out of gas and crashed.

I saw your patient today, who is still under our car for physical therapy.

The patient lives at home with his mother, father, and pet turtle, who is presently enrolled in day care three times a week.

Bleeding started in the rectal area and continued all the way to Los Angeles.

Both breasts are equal and reactive to light and accommodation.

She is numb from her toes down.

Exam of genitalia was completely negative except for the right foot.

While in the emergency room, she was examined, X-rated and sent home.

The lab test indicated abnormal lover function.

The patient was to have a bowel resection. However he took a job as a stockbroker instead.

Occasional, constant, infrequent headaches.

Coming from Detroit, this man has no children.

Examination reveals a well-developed male lying in bed with his family in no distress.

Patient was alert and unresponsive.

When she fainted, her eyes rolled around the room.
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From: "Michael W" ichaeljohn@webtv.net
Subject: There's a word for it!

Lot of folks can't understand why we have an oil shortage in the US. There's a simple answer: The oil is in Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, Wyoming, etc. The dipsticks are in Washington, D.C.
- - Unknown

"Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house,"
- - Lewis Grizzard

"The problem with the designated driver program, it's not a desirable job. But if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it. At the end of the night, drop them off at the wrong house."
- - Jeff Foxworthy

"See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time."
- - Robin Williams

"If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there is a man on base."
- - Dave Barry "What do people mean when they say the computer went down on them?"
- -Marilyn Pittman

"Relationships are hard. It's like a full time job, and we should treat it like one. If your boyfriend or girlfriend wants to leave you, they should give you two weeks' notice. There should be severance pay, and before they leave you, they should have to find you a temp."
- - Bob Ettinger

"My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, 'Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim."
- - Paula Poundstone

"A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: Duh."
--Conan O'Brien

"Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant?? I'm halfway through my fish burger and I realize, Oh my God.... I could be eating a slow learner."
- - Lynda Montgomery

"The day I worry about cleaning my house is the day Sears comes out with a riding vacuum cleaner."
- - Roseanne

"I think that's how Chicago got started. A bunch of people in New York said, 'Gee, I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it just isn't cold enough. Let's go west.'"
- - Richard Jeni

"If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead."
-Johnny Carson

"Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography."
- - Paul Rodriguez

"My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty, and that's the law."
- - Jerry Seinfeld

"In elementary school, in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file line from smallest to tallest. What is the logic? Do tall people burn slower?"
- - Warren Hutcherson

"Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same."
- - Oscar Wilde

"Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet."
-Mae West

"Suppose you were an idiot... And suppose you were a member of Congress...But I repeat myself."
- - Mark Twain

"Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait."
- - A. Whitney Brown

"Ah, yes, divorce......., from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet,"
- - Robin Williams

"Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month that I can be myself."
- - Roseanne

"Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place."
- - Billy Crystal

"You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that says, 'My God, you're right! I never would've thought of that!'"
- - Dave Barry

"If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten."
- - George Carlin

"When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car."
- - Author Unknown
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