10 Worst Medical Sentences Ever Written
Here: 10 “sentences”-dissected from articles submitted by physicians to this Web site over the years and presented in unadulterated (and unedited) form-that we hope you’ll enjoy as much as we did.
And now . . . (arguably) the 10 worst medical sentences ever written.
“Therefore, follow abnormal ears until they become normal.”
“The sex ratio is predominately male.”
“The subjects viewed sexually stimulated movies in private and were encouraged to stimulate to the point of organism.”
“It is usually necessary to obtain information from institutions involved in the medical care of deceased relatives.”
“A 25-year-old smoking male.”
“Carbamazepine has become the drug of choice for neurologists.”
“My general practice as a geneticist is to document the risks I offer to families.”
“Even more important is to consider the patient suspected of carbon monoxide poisoning.”
“Standing behind the patient, with knees straight, they should bend over.”
“Most of us have little difficulty diagnosing the child who presents . . . ”
And now . . . for a little light summer reading . . . we reveal 10, uh, sentences dissected from articles submitted by physicians to this Web site over the years. We think you’ll agree that none of these sentences will win Nobel prizes in medicine, but we present them here in unadulterated (and unedited) form in the hope that you’ll enjoy them as much as we did.Here’s a sneak preview:“The only comforting factor to me is that my patient has a better chance of getting killed on the way to the drugstore to buy the drug than he does by actually taking it.”Â