The Act of Healing

Photograph of a physician in the act of healing a young patient. I found this sculpture in a private hospital in Panama City, Panama. Photo by ©Omar Upegui R.

This image has a strong message about human solidarity.  A physician is attending a sick young patient lying in bed.  Above them is a suffering mother in pain softly reclining her head on her husband’s shoulder.  The father is the strong figure of the group and the tallest of the three.  He comforts both his wife and his other daughter who looks down at her sick sister.  What a beautiful scene of a healing process symbol of human solidarity.

If only our modern societies would behave like this.  Good Day.

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Joke: Shingles

Bubba Had shingles Those of us who spend much time in a doctor’s office should appreciate this! Doesn’t it seem more and more that physicians are running their practices like an assembly line? Here’s what happened to Bubba:

Bubba walked into a doctor’s office and the receptionist asked him what he had. Bubba said: ‘Shingles.’ So she wrote down his name, address, medical insurance number and told him to have a seat.

Fifteen minutes later a nurse’s aide came out and asked Bubba what he had.  Bubba said, ‘Shingles.’ So she wrote down his height, weight, a complete medical history and told Bubba to wait in the examining room.

A half hour later a nurse came in and asked Bubba what he had. Bubba said, ‘Shingles.’ So the nurse gave Bubba a blood test, a blood pressure test, an electrocardiogram, and told Bubba to take off all his clothes and wait for the doctor.

An hour later the doctor came in and found Bubba sitting patiently in the nude and asked Bubba what he had. Bubba said, ‘Shingles.’ The doctor asked, ‘Where?’  Bubba said, ‘Outside on the truck. Where do you want me to unload ‘em?’

Source:  Bits & Pieces

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Joke: Tooth Extraction

Every time the dentist tried to extract his patient’s tooth, the man clamped his jaws shut.

Finally, the dentist took his assistant aside and told her, “Look, when I’m ready, I’ll give you a signal and you pinch his balls—hard!”

He did, she did, the nervous patient’s mouth flew open, and the tooth was easily extracted.

—“Now, that didn’t hurt much, did it?” asked the dentist.

—“No, not much,” replied the patient, “but who’d have thought the root went so deep?!”

Source:  Miss Cellania

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