Saturday, January 9, 2010

Self-diagnosis

The Englysh Association of Chirugeons, Apothecaries, Bloodletters and Quacksalvers deplores the modern media that are allowing patients to seek their own information about their diseases, causing them to indulge their morbid curiosity and question the doctor's diagnosis or plan of treatment.

Association leader Johannes of Ardernes said that Vesalius' De humani corporis fabrica should never become a replacement for visiting a qualified chirugeon.
"Are you sure that this is the right treatment? I only came in with a headache."
"Be quiet and remember who's the doctor here. And stop wriggling or those leeches will stay in there."

8 comments:

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said...

That's one helluva novelty teapot.
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J— said...

I didn't know Preparation H used to come in a reed.

mikey said...

The whole idea of a two-level urgent care facility is simply brilliant. While one dood in a snuggy and a knit cap sits in a comfy wicker chair and pokes enthusiastically at your nether regions, your upper half can be answering questions, filling out forms and otherwise addressing the bureaucratic needs of the health care industry...

M. Bouffant said...

That's a very enthusiastic finger the snuggie doc's poking w/.

He may just be trying to re-inflate his patient's upper half w/ the air hose.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

what kind of doctors do you visit, Mr. Bouffant?

Smut Clyde said...

He may just be trying to re-inflate his patient's upper half w/ the air hose.
M.Bouffant is perhaps confusing the professions of 'doctor' and 'inflatable novelty puncture repairman'.

Big Bad Bald Bastard said...

This illustration depicts the trial of the Albigensian "suicide petardier" who tried to blow up a wagon bound for Arles with explosives stuffed in his hose.

M. Bouffant said...

The patient's legs are on backwards, he's a Moebius strip, or something ... is this from the days before perspective?