Agraphia Medical Tragicomedy

12Feb/072

Penis cancer

I have a vivid memory of laughing hysterically at a sitcom when I was younger. The dialog went something like this:

Patient: What is it, doc?
Doctor: I'm afraid I have some bad news, son. It's cancer. Penis cancer.

This morning we had a whole lecture on penis cancer, and I am here to tell you... it's not funny. Not at all†. There is nothing funny about penis cancer. In fact, penis cancer is some of the most revolting, vile stuff we've seen so far.

†except for the word penis. That will always be funny.

Filed under: Best Of, Medicine Leave a comment
Comments (2) Trackbacks (0)
  1. Liz
    February 19th, 2007 - 23:06

    you’re hilarious. and i loved that Mr Will this be on the exam asker. it was priceless!! :)

    ( REPLY )
  2. meep
    July 25th, 2010 - 22:35

    man this means we’re not the only school that does GU path on Valentine’s Day :P

    ( REPLY )

Leave a comment

(required)

No trackbacks yet.

» «

About This Blog

An ER doc talks about the highs and lows of modern medical care.

Recent Comments

Twitterfeed

Categories

Tags

admin advantages in ER apathy badass blogroll burnout chaos choosing specialties cocaine coding cpr cynicism death & dying drug seekers early morning enrolling patients fatigue fevers funny futile care good mood growing up heroic measures idealorealistic dissociation images IRB moving the meat oh god the horror overcrowding overheard overtesting ow! peds pelvic exams public health Q&A radiation research rough day schizophrenia shockable rhythm smoking uninvolved families worried parents

MedBlogs

Contributions

Archives