The saying goes: “Laughter is the best medicine.” Research has found that laughing heartily has many benefits for both the body and the mind. When people laugh, there are many positive changes in their psychological and physiological states. Therefore, doctors should encourage people to laugh more, and reading jokes is one way to make oneself burst into laughter.
“Reader’s Digest” has compiled a bunch of jokes related to doctors and hospitals, here are some excerpts translated to bring a smile to your face:
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A surgeon before a major surgery said, “Relax, Jim. This is just a minor incision, no need to panic.” The patient looked puzzled and said, “Um, doctor? My name isn’t Jim.” The doctor replied, “I know. Jim is my name.”
2.
Mrs. Chen went to see a doctor because she had constant hiccups. After an examination, she screamed and ran out of the consultation room. A nurse stopped her and asked if everything was okay. When Mrs. Chen explained what happened, the nurse went to the doctor and asked, “What’s going on? Mrs. Chen is 63 years old, has 4 adult children and 7 grandchildren, and you told her she’s pregnant?” The doctor laughed and said, “Didn’t her hiccups stop?”
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Tim couldn’t make it to the doctor’s appointment on Tuesday, so he rescheduled it to Thursday. When he went to see the doctor on Thursday, the doctor said there’s good news and bad news. “The good news is, I received your test results, you have 48 hours to live.” Tim angrily asked, “That’s the good news?! What’s the bad news?” The doctor responded, “Your appointment was originally scheduled for Tuesday.”
4.
An old lady went to the doctor with a unique problem – she kept farting, but it was always silent and odorless. To demonstrate the issue, she let out a fart right there and said, “See, doctor? No sound, no smell.” The doctor nodded, wrote her a prescription, and asked her to come back for a follow-up a week later. When she returned, the old lady said, “Doctor, I don’t know what medication you gave me, but now my farts stink!” The doctor replied, “Great! Now that we’ve cured your sinusitis, we can start treating your hearing.”
5.
Lenny told a psychiatrist, “Every time I climb into bed, I’m terrified that there’s someone under it.” The psychiatrist nodded and said that if he came three times a week, for two years, paying $200 per visit, he could cure his fear. Six months later, Lenny met the psychiatrist by chance who asked why he hadn’t come back for treatment. Lenny smiled and said, “Pay $200 each time? A bartender only charged me $10 and cured my fear.” “Really? How did he do it?” asked the psychiatrist. Lenny replied, “He told me to saw off the bed legs.”
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Patient: “Doctor, my throat hurts.”
Doctor: “Go to the window and stick out your tongue.”
Patient: “Will that make me feel better?”
Doctor: “No, I just don’t like my neighbor.”
7.
Doctor: “There’s good news and bad news. The bad news is, you have partial short-term memory loss.”
Patient: “Oh no, doctor. What’s the bad news?”
8.
Doctor: “Do you want to hear the good news or the bad news first?”
Patient: “Tell me the good news.”
Doctor: “You’re about to have a disease named after you.”
9.
Patient: “Doctor, I think I need glasses.”
Teller: “You definitely do! This is a bank.”
10.
Doctor: “Unfortunately, you only have 5 minutes to live.”
Patient: “5 minutes?! What can I do?”
Doctor: “Boil an egg?”
In addition to these humorous anecdotes, it’s worth noting that Dr. Megan Kamath, a cardiologist and clinical assistant professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, mentioned that while it’s possible for people to suffocate due to lack of oxygen when laughing or have a heart attack and pass away, the chances of “dying of laughter” are very low. In most cases, laughter is not harmful, and can even be beneficial for one’s health.
Dr. Todd Cohen, a cardiologist and electrophysiologist at the New York Institute of Technology, also stated that laughter is generally harmless and even beneficial for people’s health. So, go ahead and have a good laugh. Wishing you a wonderful day.