werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner) (07/27/85)
<> Some people may already know of my fondness for humor originating in the Eastern bloc: At an internation medical conference, a group of physicians shared their experiences informally between the delivery of the scholarly papers. The French physician lamented, "Our problem is that we successfully treat the patient's rheumatism, yet he dies from cancer." A Canadian physician agreed, "The same thing happens inour practice. We cure a man of jaundice and he dies of a heart attack." The Soviet physician angrily interjects: "Everything you say is nothing but bourgeois ambivalence. We, in the Soviet Union, treat our patients for, say, pneumonia, and I can assure you that they die from pneumonia!" -- Craig Werner !philabs!aecom!werner "The world is just a straight man for you sometimes"