werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner) (11/04/85)
At a benefit here, a comedian had to digress from his act to tell us
the following true story.
One day he noticed something that felt like a little ball between his
legs, in his groin area. ("No, an extra one" he added.) At first he thought
it was kind of neat, but over the weekend it kept growing. Monday morning,
he looked at it in the mirror and all he could say was "Oh, my Gooddddddd."
He showed it to his roommate, and the roommate just turned sick and said, "Oh
my Goodddddddd."
He decided to go see a doctor. He had to wait in the waiting room
for an hour or so, and he's thinking, "I'm going to die." Finally, he gets
to see the doctor, and the doctor examines him, takes a look at the, by this
time, hugh growth, and says "Hhhmmmph" ("I hate when doctor's go Hmmmph", he
said.) Then the doctor gets called away. Meanwhile, he's sitting there
thinking, "Well that's it, it's cancer for sure. How many weeks have I got
to live, Doc." He's sitting in the exam room, watching his life go by.
Finally, the doctor comes back, and says "I want you to be seen by
a Surgeon. He's next door and will be here in a few minutes." [Repeat last
paragraph.] Eventually, the Surgeon comes in, takes a look at the growth,
taps it, feels it, and then says, "Could you please take your socks off."
At this point, everyone but the First year medical students break out
laughing.
I'll tell you next week. In the meantime, let me leave you with two
thoughts. One, if you don't know the answer, I'd think twice about taking
your medical treatment into your own hands. And two, in one retrospective
study, this particular "Cancer" accounted for over 1/2 of all "Cancer Cures"
claimed by a nonconventional therapist (Laetrile and the like.)
If however, you know what it is, I bet you're laughing as hard as we
were. (Well maybe not as hard - he did have a very good delivery.)
--
Craig Werner
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"Comedy, like Medicine, was never meant to be practiced by the general public."ajs@hpfcla.UUCP (11/19/85)
> At this point, everyone but the First year medical students break out >laughing. > I'll tell you next week. I'm still waiting for the answer. Augh! Never depend on the Net to finish a sente