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Be Nice to Your Nurse.

When you're hospitalized, it pays to be nice to your nurse, even when you're feeling miserable.
A bossy businessman learned the hard way after ordering his nurses around as if they were his employees.
But the head nurse stood up to him. One morning she entered his room and announced, "I have to take your temperature."
After complaining for several minutes, he finally settled down, crossed his arms and opened his mouth.
"No, I'm sorry, the nurse stated, "but for this reading, I can't use an oral thermometer."

This started another round of complaining, but eventually he rolled over and bared his bottom. After feeling the nurse insert the thermometer, he heard her announce, "I have to get something. Now you stay just like that until I get back!"
She left the door to his room open on her way out, and he cursed under his breath as he heard people
walking past his door laughing.
After almost an hour, the man's doctor came into the room. "What's going on here?" asked the doctor.

Angrily, the man answered, "What's the matter, Doc? Haven't you ever seen someone having their temperature taken?"
"Yes," said the doctor. "But never with a carnation.
 
Before finishing this joke my mind went back to a film that had this kind of situation in it, It was one of the films Sid James and his crazy gang produced
Also I think it might've been Paul. Newman in an Alkatraz movie. They were fed so much citrus he put citrus leaves between his cheeks during an inspection.
 
When you're hospitalized, it pays to be nice to your nurse, even when you're feeling miserable.
A bossy businessman learned the hard way after ordering his nurses around as if they were his employees.
But the head nurse stood up to him. One morning she entered his room and announced, "I have to take your temperature."
After complaining for several minutes, he finally settled down, crossed his arms and opened his mouth.
"No, I'm sorry, the nurse stated, "but for this reading, I can't use an oral thermometer."

This started another round of complaining, but eventually he rolled over and bared his bottom. After feeling the nurse insert the thermometer, he heard her announce, "I have to get something. Now you stay just like that until I get back!"
She left the door to his room open on her way out, and he cursed under his breath as he heard people
walking past his door laughing.
After almost an hour, the man's doctor came into the room. "What's going on here?" asked the doctor.

Angrily, the man answered, "What's the matter, Doc? Haven't you ever seen someone having their temperature taken?"
"Yes," said the doctor. "But never with a carnation.
That's a good old one, I believe from the Nino Cullotto book the things they do to you in hospital. Only that case it was a daffodil.
 

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