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Not familiar with Courage Wolf, but sounds like it would have captions like:

There was a nurse who had just transferred to a new hospital in Texas. During her orientation tour, she quickly became tired of constantly hearing how much bigger everything was in the Lone Star State. Excusing herself to use the restroom, she soon was lost in the new hospital's corridors. Thinking she'd finally found a restroom, she entered the hospital's darkened hydrotherapy pool room. Before she could find a light switch, she tripped and fell into the pool. Spluttering as she surfaced, she began calling out in a panic, "Don't flush it! Don't flush it!"

Reminds me of the fellow who came home somewhat inebriated, and told his wife he'd been to a new jazz club that was so ritzy they had gold urinals. The wife didn't believe it, so after hubby was bundled into bed, she called the club to ask for confirmation. "Is it true you have gold urinals?" Before the club manager answered her, she heard him calling to someone in the background, "Hey, Lou, I think I've found who ****** in your saxophone!"

26. You wonder when they started letting elementary school kids become doctors. 27. You have ever used the word "whippersnapper". 28. You realize you can't find some of your favorite magazines on the racks any more: Colliers, Coronet, Life, Look, Galaxy... 29. People start letting you go through doors first. 30. You no longer have to worry about strange men offering you candy. Or wine. 31. You know the difference between your and you're; its and it's; there, they're and their; and are annoyed when you notice them misused. 32. You have ever referred to yourself using a 'C' word: Crotchety, Curmudgeon, Codger, Coot. 33. Other people have begun referring to you as "eccentric".

I don't think I'd like to see a stripper with a hanging pannus! :dncgbby::grn:

Not being a health professional myself, I was unfamiliar with this term. From context, I guessed it was something I have myself, but just to be sure, I called up a dictionary definition on my browser. I was a bit surprised when the only definition I found was But it gets worse. The dictionary website also gives usage of the word, and one of the examples for this (the only one that didn't refer to the eye condition) describes "stomach pannus" as Public?

Good grief, Advo-Kate2 and Cul2, who wadded up your panties? We civilians have seen MASH and House and all those other medical shows. We know you angels probably face more stress every day than we do in a year. We know that working with Death looking over your shoulder requires a certain type of graveyard humor. There's even a name for it, "black humor." And any relief you can get by sharing these stories makes you better able to face your jobs, and keep the rest of us from panicking. As for confidentiality, I don't see patients identified by name, and I'll bet the weirdest story on this entire site has happened at least 3 times just during this past year somewhere in this country! Add to that that we're all posting more or less anonymously, and I don't see how these stories could really be considered breeches of confidentiality.

Disclaimer -- Not a health pro, squemish at the sight of blood, just a heavy user of medical services. I'm wondering what you all feel about this review I wrote for a SciFi fan forum: I haven't thought the doctors on the show doing tests and other nursey things was that odd, since the premise is that they're "on fellowships", essentially students all over again to learn from House, plus working with special patients who had been singled out for exceptional care. But there have been a lot of other times I've had to exercise my "willing suspension of disbelief" as much as I do for the sci-fi shows I like.

(I am NOT the author of the following, don't even know where it came from, I'm just passing it along.) http://wendi-aarons.blogspot.com/2007/03/as-seen-on-mcsweeneysnet.html