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SOURCE:  Southwest Chinese Baptist Church
http://swcbc.org/medical.html

Ways To Cope With Stress

  • Drive to work in reverse.
  • Fill out your tax form using Roman Numerals.
  • Leaf through "National Geographic" and draw underwear on the natives.
  • Make up a language and ask people for directions in it.
  • Pay your electric bill in pennies.
  • Pop some popcorn without putting the lid on.
  • Put your toddler's clothes on backwards and send him to pre-school as if nothing is wrong.
  • Write a short story using alphabet soup.

A father brought his son into the doctor because the boy had a matchbox car shoved up his nose. All the while the doctor was trying to remove the car, the father kept saying "I don't know how he did it!" Finally the doctor removed the car, and the father and son left.

A few hours later, the father came back with the matchbox shoved up HIS nose. He told the doctor, "I know how he did it!"


An eighth-grade teacher was leading a discussion on the qualifications for being President of the United States. After the teacher commented that a person must be a natural-born citizen, one of the students raised her hand. "Does that mean that if you were born by Caesarean section that you can't be President?"


The patient awakened after the operation to find herself in a room with all the blinds drawn.

"Why are all the blinds closed?" she asked her doctor.

"Well," the surgeon responded, "They're fighting a huge fire across the street, and we didn't want you to wake up and think the operation had failed."


Some Thoughts

  • One of life's mysteries is how a two pound box of candy can make a person gain five pounds.
  • Brain cells come and go, but fat cells live forever.
  • Life not only begins at 40, it begins to show.
  • Amazing! You just hang something in your closet for a while and it shrinks two sizes.

"Doctors at a hospital in Brooklyn, New York have gone on strike. Hospital officials say they will find out what the Doctors' demands are as soon as they can get a pharmacist over there to read the picket signs."


Doctor: What's the condition of the boy who swallowed the quarter?
Nurse: No change yet.


A man goes to the doctor and says to the doctor:
"It hurts when I press here" (pressing his side)
"And when I press here" (pressing the other side)
"And here" (his leg)
"And here, here and here" (his other leg, and both arms)

So the doctor examined him all over and finally discovered what was wrong... "You've got a broken finger!"


A distraught man ran into the doctor's office.
"Doc!" The man screamed, "I've lost my memory!"
"When did this happen?" asked the doctor.
The man looked at him and said, "When did what happen?"


THESE ARE ACTUAL EXCERPTS FROM STUDENT SCIENCE EXAM PAPERS:

  • Three kinds of blood vessels are arteries, vanes and caterpillars.
  • The process of turning steam back into water again is called conversation.
  • A magnet is something you find crawling all over a dead cat.
  • The Earth makes one resolution every 24 hours.
  • To collect fumes of sulfur, hold a deacon over a flame in a test tube.
  • Parallel lines never meet, unless you bend one or both of them.
  • Algebraical symbols are used when you do not know what you are talking about.
  • A circle is a line which meets its other end without ending.
  • The pistol of a flower is its only protection against insects.
  • The moon is a planet just like the Earth, only it is even deader.
  • A super-saturated solution is one that holds more than it can hold.
  • Blood flows down one leg and up the other.
  • The hookworm larvae enters the human body through the soul.
  • For fractures: to see if the limb is broken, wiggle it gently back and forth.
  • For nosebleed: put the nose much lower than the body.
  • To remove dust from the eye, pull the eye down over the nose.
  • For head colds: use an agonizer to spray the nose until it drops in your throat.
  • Before giving a blood transfusion, find out if the blood is affirmative or negative.
  • Bar magnets have north and south poles, horseshoe magnets have east and west poles.
  • When you smell an odorless gas, it is probably carbon monoxide.

SOURCE:  www.jokesnjokes.net

CALORIE BURNING ACTIVITIES

Jumping to conclusions 100
Swallowing your pride 50
Passing the buck 150
Pushing your luck 250
Wading through paperwork 300
Jumping on the bandwagon 200
Balancing the books 25
Running around in circles 350
Climbing the ladder of success 750
Adding fuel to the fire 160
Wrapping it up at the day's end 12

To which you may want to add your own favorite activities, including:

Opening a can of worms 50
Putting your foot in your mouth 300
Starting the ball rolling 90
Going over the edge 25
Picking up the pieces after 350
Counting eggs before they hatch 6
Calling it quits 2

SOURCE:  www.webcom.com

The Memory Test

Three elderly men are at the doctor's office for a memory test.

The doctor asks the first man, "What is three times three?"

"274," is his reply.

The doctor rolls his eyes and looks up at the ceiling, and asks the second man, "It's your turn. What is three times three?"

"Tuesday," replies the second man.

The doctor shakes his head sadly, then asks the third man, "Okay, your turn. What's three times three?"

"Nine," says the third man.

"That's great!" says the doctor. "How did you get that?"

"Simple," he says, "just subtract 274 from Tuesday."

Anonymous


The Second Opinion

A woman told the vet that something was wrong with her dog. He examined the animal and told her the dog was dead.

"I don't believe you", she said, "I'd like a second opinion"

The vet said that would be fine. He went into the other room and got a cat. He put the cat up on the table with the dog. The cat sniffed the dog and jumped down. The vet then got a black lab, put him on the table and the lab sniffed and jumped down.

The vet tells the lady again, "I'm sorry, but your dog is definitely dead. That will be $600 for the exam."

"$600 is ridiculous, what are the charges for?" she exclaimed.

"$600 is a bargain," the vet explained. "$50 for me and only $550 for the cat scan and lab work."

Susan Micheli


De Name Game

An expectant mother was in a car accident. She was rushed to the hospital by her brother who was with her at the time of the accident. When they reached the hospital, she was comatose and went in for an immediate C-section.

After 24 hours, she came around and saw her brother by the bedside. He immediately held her hand and said, "Sis, we were in an accident and you underwent an emergency C-section. You had twins and I took the liberty of naming them in case you didn't pull through."

His sister asked her younger brother what he named the twins.

"The girl ...I named Denise," the brother replied proudly.

"What a wonderful name!…and the other twin?" she asked.

"The boy I named Denephew!"

Vic


Top 10 Odd Medical Record Statements (supposedly found on patient's charts)

  1. "The skin was moist and dry."
  2. "The patient lives at home with his mother, father, and pet turtle, who is presently enrolled in day care three times a week." 
  3. "The patient was in his usual state of good health until his airplane ran out of gas and crashed."
  4. "The patient was to have a bowel resection. However, he took a job as stockbroker instead."
  5. "I saw your patient today, who is still under our car for physical therapy."
  6. "While in the emergency room, she was examined, X-rated and sent home."
  7. "She stated that she had been constipated for most of her life until 1989 when she got a divorce."
  8. "When she fainted, her eyes rolled around the room." 
  9. "She is numb from her toes down."
  10. "The baby was delivered, the cord clamped and cut, and handed to the pediatrician, who breathed and cried immediately."

Amanda
Tallahassee, Fl


A Satisfied Taxpayer

There was a man who computed his taxes for 1998 and discovered that he owed $3,407. He packaged up his payment and included this letter:

Dear IRS:

Enclosed is my 1998 Tax Return & payment. Please take note of the attached article from the USA Today newspaper. In the article, you will see that the Pentagon is paying $171.50 for hammers and NASA has paid $600.00 for a toilet seat.

Please find enclosed four toilet seats (value $2400) and six hammers (value $1029). This brings my total payment to $3429.00. Please note the overpayment of $22.00 and apply it to the "Presidential Election Fund," as noted on my return. Might I suggest you send the above mentioned fund a "1.5 inch screw." (See attached article...HUD paid $22.00 for a 1.5 inch Phillips Head Screw.)

It has been a pleasure to pay my tax bill this year, and I look forward to paying it again next year.

Sincerely,

A Satisfied Taxpayer

An Anonymous Schwartz & Schwartz Client
Waltham, MA


Spell Check

I am an ambulance officer and one day while sitting at a social event a guy walked up to me and asked:

"What does E C N A L U B M A spell?"

Anon
Australia


 
Last updated 04/08/10
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