Welcome to issue one. The rule here is the same as on the feed: every joke is accuracy-checked before it is allowed to be funny, and we punch at the system, the specialty and ourselves — never at a patient.
Three from this week's rounds
1. A neurologist wearing a stethoscope is wearing jewelry. I brought a reflex hammer, a tuning fork, and a safety pin. The stethoscope is here for the photo.
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2. A brain shunt is just indoor plumbing for spinal fluid — and like all plumbing, it clogs at 2 a.m. on a holiday weekend, never on a quiet Tuesday.
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3. Broken Q-tip. Reflex hammer. EEG. MRI. My most advanced diagnostic tool is still asking, "and then what happened?"
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The one to send
If you know a neurologist who has ever posed with a stethoscope for the department photo, number one is theirs. Forward it. That is the whole growth strategy.
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— The Sports Neurologist
The brain is king.