Medical snobbery

James: "My dad is a doctor."

HL: "A real doctor?"

James: "A GP."

HL and Cez together: "No, then."

On crosswords

Ruth [reading from the crossword]: " 'Award, formerly used for knighthood.' Eight letters."

Bill: "Sir!"

Ones for the medics

I've been resisting the urge to post these for weeks, because they aren't immediately obvious to people less geeky than myself. But they make me laugh every time I see them (I wrote them in the back of my notebook - this was possibly a bad idea as it forces me to stifle a giggle every time I want to write down something a consultant says) and so I thought I might as well share them with the world.

And who knows, you might even learn something!

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At the colorectal clinic:

Doctor [pounding fist emphatically on the table]: "We need to get to the bottom of this."

And later:

Li: "No-one gives a shit about Hirschsprung's ... no pun intended."

A very useful page entitled What I need to know about Hirschsprung's Disease - i.e. what you need to know about Hirschsprung's Disease (if you don't already) for that joke to be funny/highly offensive. You only need to read the first section.

Introducing our newest guest star!

Thanusha is, like myself, a clinical transfer student from Cambridge. She claims to be from East London, but we have discovered she actually lives in Essex.

Thanusha: "How old are you?"
Celery: "Twenty."
Thanusha: "So are you going to turn 21 at some point?"

Um... yes. Unless that's a death threat?


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In our lecture today we were asked to do a short anatomy quiz for someone's research into the different levels of anatomy teaching in different medical schools. It wasn't too hard and we were pretty confident we had most of them right. After some thought, we made a note after "University" that we had learned our anatomy in Cambridge (credit where credit's due...)

Thanusha: "I've got an idea, let's get them all wrong and put Imperial!"

If it weren't for that the poor guy running the survey looked so stressed, we probably would have, too.