I'm not sure if this is Doctor humor or not.

[Winger Ed.]

Most all the Doctors I've dealt with don't really have much of a sense of humor.

Several years ago:
A buddy's Mom was getting older, and a few spots started rubbing off her dice so to speak.
All in all, she was about as healthy as a horse, even in her 80s.

All her friends had various ailments and every time they went to the Doctor,
it seemed like they always came home with a prescription for something. But his Mom never did.

It started to bug her, and she felt left out. She wanted a Doctor's prescription!
The next time she went in for a check up, she mentioned this to her Doctor, and wouldn't take no for an answer.

The Doctor gave her one. Without reading it-- she folded it, and put it in her purse.
Getting home, she took it out and showed my buddy,,,,, and she was so happy.

My buddy unfolded it and read it, thinking he'd have to make a trip to the drug store.
The Prescription said, "Stay out of Doctor's offices and drug stores for six months".

[contender1]

:D :D :D

The doctor who delivered me & was our family doctor until his death,, had a very dry sense of humor. If you knew him, you could see it. His son & I grew up together, so I was around him a lot.
Most folks didn't understand him or his humor,, but I never had any problems knowing when he was joking.

[Milky Duck]

Doctors put up with a lot...its no wonder their humor is a tad different to most.

[Land Owner]

Doctors come in all characters. Some are tyrants who Lord it over patients and staff. Others are genuinely concerned, smarter than they are tall, and helpful.

And then there are PIGS and QUACKS! I have visited, once each, at least one of the former and one of the latter, both being ENT's (Ear, Nose, Throat), and hurriedly went somewhere else.

The first ENT, a middle Eastern PIG, "on the list" by insurance, was slovenly, wore a filthy lab coat, entered my scheduled appointment an hour late, started and departed without a word to me as I overheard the hospital had an "interesting case". I got up and walked out.

The next ENT hurt me during his initial exam, REFUSED TO STOP or recognize the fact as I was coming out of the chair in pain. I got MAD that day and walked out. Had I not already been forced to co-pay in advance, I would have stiffed that QUACK.

I have been the beneficiary of a few exceptional doctors too. Unfortunately for me, the best of the best, a shooting friend and my GP (General Practitioner) for 12-years, an Internal Medicine Specialist who liked having a few GP patients "to keep him on his toes", sold his Private Practice of 25-years in year 12 of our doctor-patient relationship, volunteered for the Air Force as an O5, approved through Congress without benefits, to serve in the Ramstein AFB Army Hospital in Germany for the boys coming back from Desert Shield in Iraq. His "money where his mouth is" is as an extreme example of Patriotism.

Throughout it ALL, in 45-years of being a "mostly well" adult patient, with only minor maladies by comparison, there has been one central theme, medicine is being "practiced" by committee in Insurance Board Rooms rather than at the doctor-patient interface.

[Winger Ed.]

Doctors come in all characters. .

I've been lucky enough to have very, very little first hand experience with Doctors.
Of those, I don't have any complaints.

A friend of my Dad lived down the street from his Doctor, and they were personal friends.
The guy told of one evening he was hanging out with his Doctor buddy and lit up a big cigar.

The Doc. told him, "I got away with taking you off salt, and booze.
What are you going to do if I take you off those cigars"?

Pop's buddy told him, "Find another Doctor".

[beemer]

My eye doctor is personable, polite, and answers any questions you have but he is no nonsense and to the point. He is also very good eye surgeon and in demand, I can live with that.

My personal doctor is a fine fellow, I have known him and his family for years. First thing he ask is if I have any new toys. He wanted to give me a prescription for another 1911.

He's a good doctor and cares about his patients. He was also my Mother's doctor and was very patent with her. Toward the last it was getting hard to transport her. He gave us his personal phone number and said if we needed him he would come to her house. You can guess how I feel about him.

[ascast]

I went to see a doctor once, don't remember why. He asked if there was anything else I had going on. I told him I frequently woke up with a splitting headache on Sundays, He said "try a different church"

[popper]

When Mom went to the old folks home in her 90s, she hated talking to the folks there cause they only talked ailments and grand kids.

[Winger Ed.]

they only talked ailments and grand kids.

That's getting off easy.
When Mrs. Winger's Mom was in one, some of the old folks there were obsessed with their bowel movements.
I figure I'm pretty tolerant, and a 'live and let live' kind of guy, but that was a bit much even for me.

[popper]

obsessed with their bowel movements
Don't laugh, that is often a big problem. For many reasons. Some times embarrassment, sometimes nobody to help get to the commode, Mom had painful movements due to the pancreatic cancer that took her.

[DocSavage]

I've a pat answer for the "do you smoke?"
Only when I'm on. fire

[Land Owner]

I tried that one ^^^^^ at home...and got the tee shirt.

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[Winger Ed.]

Don't laugh, that is often a big problem. For many reasons. Some times embarrassment, sometimes nobody to help get to the commode, Mom had painful movements due to the pancreatic cancer that took her.

That's quite understandable.

What I was subjected to was one old so-and-so, carrying around and showing everybody various Polaroid
pictures taken looking straight down into a commode. And no, it wasn't empty with only clear water in it.

I used to think I was fearless----- at least until the second time I saw that guy heading straight towards me...