Chuckle 1108

Chuckle 1108
(George H of Florence OR gets today's chuckle thanks!)

~Hospital Info~ (2nd time around)
(Plus: Today in History and Word for the Day)

Anyone who has ever had a loved one in the hospital will enjoy this

A woman called a local hospital. "Hello. Could you connect me to the person who gives information about patients? I'd like to find out if a family member is doing better." The voice on the other end said, "What is the patient's name and room number?" "Sarah Finkel, room 302." "I'll connect you with the nursing station." "3-A Nursing Station. How can I help you?" "I'd like to know the condition of Sarah Finkel in room 302." "Are you a family member?" "Yes, Yes I am...” "Hold on... let me look at her records... Mrs. Finkel is doing very well. In fact, she's had two full meals, her blood pressure is fine. She is to be taken off the heart monitor in a couple of hours and, if she continues this improvement, looks like Dr. Cohen is going to send her home very soon!" The woman said, "What a relief! Oh, that's fantastic... that's wonderful news!" The nurse said, "From your enthusiasm, I take it you are a sister or perhaps an aunt..?" "Neither! I'm Sarah Finkel in 302! And NOBODY here ever tells me nothin!!" ***


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Word of the Day for Thursday July 20, 2006

nescience \NESH-uhn(t)s; NESH-ee-uhn(t)s\, noun:Lack of knowledge or awareness; ignorance.

The ancients understood that too much knowledge could actually impede human functioning -- this at a time when the encroachments on global nescience were comparatively few.-- Cullen Murphy, "DNA Fatigue", The Atlantic, November 1997

He fought on our behalf in the war that finally matters: against nescience, against inadvertence, against the supposition that anything is anything else.-- Hugh Kenner, "On the Centenary of James Joyce", New York Times, January 31, 1982

The notion has taken hold that every barometric fluctuation must demonstrate climate change. This anecdotal case for global warming is mostly nonsense, driven by nescience of a basic point, from statistics and probability, that the weather is always weird somewhere.-- Gregg Easterbrook, "Warming Up", The New Republic, November 8, 1999
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