Category: Hospital Humor

“The procedure’s an easy one, And you will do quite well”, she said. The nurse was speaking quietly While standing there beside my bed. “I know that this will be your first And this procedure isn’t fun, You know you’ll be a better man Once this operation has been done.” Had she addressed those words […]

A man must have invented it, That diabolical machine. The cold unfeeling mammogram Made to mutilate and demean. Would men be so smug and happy If they too had to stuff and cram Their most sensitive tender parts In a woman invented man-o-gram?

Yesterday I got a call, she said her name was Joan. Her husband had been injured and he was all alone. As chaplain could I visit him until she could get there? Because she wanted him to know she’d sent someone to care. The doctor said the patient was really doing well. How soon he’d […]

It was my first operation, I’d settle only for the best. A “crack” team is what I ordered And they best honor my request. They said the “crack” team had arrived It was the best that could be found. It wasn’t a team of surgeons, They’d hired a team to make my gown!

Aunt Sarah’s favorite magazine Had been The Saturday Evening Post. It told her how to plant a garden And how long to cook her Sunday roast. With it she treated her aches and pains And as for doctors, had no need. Any illness Aunt Sarah had, She treated from her monthly read. But there’s sad […]