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When I was a student I was a hospital volunteer with the lactation consultants on the mother/baby floor. One of my duties was to take the breast pumps to central supply to have them cleaned. I entered an elevator with a breast pump and a man said, "I'd hate to be hooked up to one of those". We both laughed when I told him what the machine was for.
Linda
That's a good one. Here's another: Three doctors
were walking down the beach when they came upon a magic lantern. One of them rubbed it, and out popped a genie, who declared,"I will grant each of you a wish."
The first doctor to speak up said,"I heal others, but I'm always in pain myself. I'd like the perfect health." And POOF! With a cloud of smoke every ache and pain was gone.
The second doctor said,"You can never be too rich, right? Make me unimaginably wealthy." POOF! Somewhere in Switzerland, his bank account added a dozen zeros.
The third doctor laughed smugly to himself and said,"I'm already healthy and I'm wealthy, so I suppose you'd better make me a little more wise."
And POOF! He turned into a nurse.
Here's one, taken from the Medical Bloopers calendar. I buy one every year,
"I was discussing with a student her cardiac patient who was on Digoxin. I asked her what classification Digoxin was. 'A diuretic?' she asked. I remained silent. 'an antibiotic?' she stammered. I shook my head no. She looked pleadingly at a fellow student who was standing across the hall. 'Sorry!' I stated. 'your first two guesses were wrong and you cannot use a life-line. This is not 'Who Wants to be an RN'."
FranEMTnurse, CNA, LPN, EMT-I
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My calendar is a gift given to me last Christmas. A young man sidled up to a woman at a bar and asked, "What do you do?" "I'm a nurse." she replied. " I wish I could be ill and let you nurse me," he whispered in her ear. "That would be an interesting sight," she replied. "I work in a maternity ward.":roll