Monday, 18 July 2011

Night calls

Doctors are used to getting calls at any hour. One night a man phoned, waking me up. “I’m sorry to bother you,” he said, “but I think my wife has appendicitis.”

Still half-asleep, I reminded him that I had taken his wife’s inflamed appendix out a couple of years before.

“Whoever heard of a second appendix?” I asked.

“You may not have heard of a second appendix,” he replied, “but surely you’ve heard of a second wife.”

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