Full Description
This entertaining book presents hundreds of humorous jokes, quotations, and one-liners compiled from a variety of sources (medical literature, books, magazines, the internet, movies, television, remarks made at conferences or rounds, lectures, comic routines). The text is organized alphabetically allowing readers to browse through the book randomly, or focus on particular topics of interest. Sample subject headings include: Academia, Aphorisms, Atrophy, Bedside Manner, Beepers, Case Reports, Chicken Soup, Dieting, Epitaphs, Fatigue, Health Food, Insanity, Jogging, Lab Tests, Lawyers, Middle Age, Motherhood, Night Calls, Obesity, Phobias, Quacks, Retirement, Snoring, Teenagers, Turfing, Ulcers, Vacations, Wellness, and, Zoonoses. There is cross-referencing throughout the book for easy location of additional topics of interest.
Contents
A Abscess Academia Accidents Acupunture Acute Adhesive Tape Administration (See Hospital Administration) Adolescence Adoption Advice Aging (See Old Age) Alcohol Allergy Alternative Medicine (See Acupuncture, Chiropractors, Homeopathy) Alzheimers Disease American Medical Association Amnesia Anatomy Anemia (See Iron Deficiency) Anesthesia Anorexia Antibiotics Anxiety Aphorisms Appendix Appointments Arteries Arthritis Artificial Insemination Art of Medicine Aspirin Asthma Atrophy Attendings Autopsy B Babies Backache Bacteria Baldness Bedside Manner Bedwetting Beepers Behavior Management Bills Biochemistry (See Krebs Cycle) Biologic Clock Birth Control Birth Marks Blood & Blood Drawing Bodily Fluids Body Brain Breast Exams Breast Feeding C Cadavers Caffeine Cancer Cardiac Arrest Cardiac Surgery Cardiology Case Presentations Case Reports CAT Scans Cephalosporins Chest Pain Chicken Soup Chief Resident Childbirth Children Child Support Chiropractors Cholesterol Chronic Circumcision Clinical Observations Clinical Practice Guidelines Cloning Club Foot Codependent Colds (See Common Cold) Colon Colonoscopy Committees Common Cold Compliance Complications Compulsive Behavior (See Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior) Computers Condoms Conferences (See Continuing Medical Education) Conjunctivitis Constipation Continuing Medical Education Coroner Cough CPR (See Cardiac Arrest) C-Sections D Death Depression Dermatology Diagnosis Diapers Diaphragm Diarrhea Dieting Diploma Disabilities (See Handicaps) Disease Divorce Doctor-Patient Communication Doctors Drinking (See Alcohol) Drug Abuse Drug Representatives Drugs Drug Stores E Ear, Nose & Throat Education EKG Emergencies Emergency Medicine Endocrinology Endoscopy Epidemiology Epitaphs (See Last Words) Ethics Exercise Experience Eyes (See Ophthalmology) F Face Lifts Family Family Practice Fat (See Cholesterol) Fatherhood Fatigue Fees (See Bills) Fever First Aid Flatus Food Foreign Body Fractures Freud G Gall Bladder Gas (See Flatus) Gastrointestinal Tract Generalist Genetics Geriatrics Glasses Gout Grand Rounds Grants Gynecology H Habits Handicaps Headaches Health Health Care Books Health Care Costs Health Care Reform Health Food Health Insurance Hearing Loss Heart Heartburn (See Indigestion) Heimlich Maneuver Hematology Hemorrhoids Hepatitis Heredity Hernias Hiccups High Blood Pressure Hippocrates History & Physical Examination HMOs (See Managed Care) Homeopathy Hospital Administration Hospitals House Calls Humor Hypochondriacs Hypothalamus I Illness Impotence Indigestion Infectious Disease Infertility Influenza Informed Consent Injuries (See Accidents) Innovations Insanity Insomnia Insurance (See Health Insurance, Life Insurance) Intensive Care Internal Medicine Internship & Residency Iron Deficiency Itching IVs J Jargon Jogging K Kidneys Knees Krebs Cycle L Lab Tests Laughter Lawyers Lectures Life Life Insurance Liposuction Liver Longevity Lungs Lyme Disease M Malpractice Mammograms Managed Care Marriage Masturbation Media Medical Education (See Education) Medical Literature Medical Practice Medical Records Medical School Medical Students Medicare Meetings (See Committees) Memory Menopause Menstruation Mental Status Microbiology (See Bacteria) Middle Age Morbidity & Mortality Conference Motherhood Multiple Personality Disorder Mumps Munchausens Syndrome Murphys Laws N Nephrology Neurology Neurosurgery Neurotics Night Call Nose Jobs Nurses Nursing Homes Nutrition (See Food) O Obesity Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior Obstetrics Old Age Oncology (See Cancer) Ophthalmology Orthopedics Osteopaths Otolaryngology (See Ear, Nose & Throat) P Pain Pancreas Paperwork Paranoid (See Personality Disorders) Parenting Pathology Patients & Patient Care Pearls Pediatrics Pelvic Exams Penis Personality Disorders Pharmacists Phobias Physical Diagnosis Pimping Placebos Plastic Surgery PMDs PMS Pregnancy Primary Care Procedures Proctology Prostate Gland Psychiatry Psychoanalysis Psychology Pulmonary Medicine (See Lungs) Q Quacks R Radiology Rectal Examination Research Residency (See Internship & Residency) Retirement Rheumatology Roundsmanship S Scaring Science & Scientists Schizophrenia Scut Second Opinions Self Help Sex Sex Education Sexually Transmitted Disease (See Venereal Disease) Sleep Smoking Sneezing (See Allergy) Snoring Sore Throat (See Strep Throat) Specialists Spinal Taps Spine Spleen Sports Medicine Statistics Stethoscope Strep Throat Stress Suicide Superego Surgeon General Surgeons Surgery Symptoms T Teaching (See Education) Teenagers (See Adolescence) Teeth Tenure Thumb Sucking Toilet Training Tonsils (See Strep Throat) Transplantation Treatment Turfing TV Doctors U Ulcers Umbilical Cord Urine Urology Uterus V Vacations Vagina VA Hospitals Varicose Veins Vasectomy Vegetarians Venereal Disease Venipuncture (See Blood & Blood Drawing) Virus Vitamins Vomiting W Waiting Room Ward Clerks Wellness Writing & Publishing X X-Rays Y Youth Z Zoonoses
