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-- Would a restaurant owned by a psychiatrist be called Oral Fixation?
-- Does the term "GI series" refer to military ballgames?
-- If an orthopedist owned a saloon, would its name be The Plastered
Joint?
A new book, The Best of Wits End: Medical Humor at Its Brainiest,
celebrates the most brilliant puns and punch lines generated by physicians.
Collected from a contest in a lifestyle magazine for doctors, this book proves
that medical professionals are very funny -- in fact, funnier than most
card-carrying humorists.
Does a reader have to be a physician to get these jokes? Some of them,
perhaps. Not every layman will understand that ...
-- If an endocrinologist owned a bar, its name would be Polly's Dipsia.
-- A pulmonologist reviewing a play might describe it as a case of "acute
thespitory distress."
-- Or, as the cinematic ophthalmologist put it, "Retina rage left
Scarlett."
Still, most of Wits End: Medical Humor at Its Brainiest is sure to make
anyone, even malpractice lawyers, laugh. You don't need a medical degree to
admire the physician who named his football team the Sphincters because
"Nothing gets by them, and they have the best tight end in the business."
About the Author
Harold J. "Icarus" Ellner, M.D., is the longtime editor of the contest and
a witty urologist with a deep understanding of the stream of life. A resident
of Richland, Washington, Dr. Ellner has published articles dealing with both
medical and non-medical humor in Verbatim, SPELL, and the Journal of the
American Medical Association. As editor of a Rotary Club publication, Dr.
Ellner is devoted to his fellow Rotarians, but he concedes that medical people
are funnier.
The Best of Wits End
Medical Humor at Its Brainiest
by Harold J. Ellner, M.D.
Hardback: $34.99; 454 pages; 978-1-4363-0615-7
Trade paperback; $23.99; 454 pages; 978-1-4363-0616-4
To request a review copy, contact the publisher at (888) 795-4274 x7479 or
Dr. Ellner (below). Please send tear sheets by regular or electronic mail to
Marketing Services.
To purchase copies of the book for resale, fax Xlibris at (610) 915-0294
or call (888) 795-4274 x7876.
Contact
Xlibris: 888-795-4274 or www.Xlibris.com
Harold J. Ellner: Kroaker023@charter.net
Carl Singer: 212-477-2283 or Northeast.News@yahoo.com
SOURCE Harold J. Ellner, M.D.
