This was an actual courtroom exchange:
* Lawyer: “Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?”
* Witness: “No.”
* Lawyer: “Did you check for blood pressure?”
* Witness: “No.”
* Lawyer: “Did you check for breathing?”
* Witness: “No.”
* Lawyer: “So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?”
* Witness: “No.”
* Lawyer: “How can you be so sure, Doctor?”
* Witness: “Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.”
* Lawyer: “But could the patient have still been alive nevertheless?”
* Witness: “Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law somewhere.”
(via Medrants)
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And John Edwards caused the flu vaccine shortage.
It’s no wonder physicians get taken by so many financial scams.
My dad forwarded that email to me about two years ago. It’s funny, but probably not real. How many of your colleagues have brains from autopsies they recently conducted sitting on their desks?
It must have been a medical malrpractice, wrongful death or a criminal prosecution case. We can only imagine the exchange if it was a PI case – The medical doctor would have been more than happy to bed the same attorney for that $400 or $500 per hour trial fee.
All physicians are whores. They just have different prices.
Lawsuits against the pharmaceutical companies… No complaints from the community about the streetwalker physicians that bed the trial attorneys on these cases? No complaints about junk science and post hoc ergo propter hoc being passed off as science?
The following equations seems to apply:
Lawyer = Good if physican = profiteer
Laywer = Bad if physician = defendant
http://www.slate.com/id/2145400/
Would you look at that? More malpractice!
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/7/prweb410144.htm
LOL! Must be those evil trial lawyers at work again.
I read all of these quotes in Richard Lederer’s books “Anguished English” and “More Anguished English”. He does say they are real, sent to him by various people.
He has similar quotes from doctors, schoolchildren (great “history of the world”), journalists, motorists, foreigners.
Virtually every funny English quotes you see on the internet are taken from his books.
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