Crack a smile

If you have a funny bone, keep it inactive while visiting a practitioner of modern medicine. Once I made a visit to the cardiologist. After preliminaries, the doctor gave me a long list of diagnostic tests to be done.

During my second visit, the doctor concentrated on my chest X-ray and ECG in despair. Then he spoke to me in a seriously: 8220;Well, you have an enlarged heart, which is quite serious.8221; This phrase tickled my funny bone, and I said, 8220;Doctor, my grandmother always prayed that I be large-hearted. My condition may be due to this.8221; The doctor was visibly enraged. He moved his palm from my neck all the way down and said, 8220;All this is your heart.8221; My funny bone was tickled yet again and I asked him, 8220;Doctor, don8217;t you think I would have made medical history by living without my lungs, stomach, and liver?8221; He was red-faced with rage. However, my wife intervened and he gave a lengthy prescription. But I had already decided not to continue with him.

Another cardiologist added one more pill to the prescription. His advice was to keep it in my pocket when I went out. I was also not to bolt the toilet door from inside, and was to place the pill below my tongue whenever I sweated or felt my heart sinking, a condition I had never experienced. This list struck me as funny, and I asked, 8220;Doctor, don8217;t you think that it will be more convenient for me to die than to live this wretched life?8221; The doctor8217;s reaction could be well imagined.

Exasperated, my family members left the choice of doctor to me, and I found one who always gave me a smile whenever I said something mischievous. Once I asked him, 8220;Doctor, I am told that miserly people are small-hearted. Will this help me?8221; He replied 8220;Perhaps, but try it after paying my consultation fee.8221; I was pleased to finally find a doctor with a funny bone.