Subject: Health (Page 17)

The rate of hospital admissions responds to bed availability; if we insist on installing more beds, they will tend to get filled.

That guy ain’t been the same since he had that vasexomy.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

I had amnesia… once or twice.


Virus: A Latin medical term meaning, “Your guess is as good as mine.”

For the first time in history, sex is more dangerous than the cigarette afterward.

(1950 – ) comedian & television host

I'm beginning to have morning sickness… I'm not having a baby, I'm just sick of morning.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

One time I was forced to go to the doctors because of a sports accident… herpes.

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian

Schizophrenia beats dining alone.

(1906 – 1972) pianist, composer, author, comedian & actor

We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

(1902 – 1971) American humorist & poet

The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings and inefficiencies to our health care system.

(1961 – ) 44th U.S. president

Yankin’ out the tonsils and the adenoods.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

”I think therefore I am.” is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.

(1929 – ) Czech writer

The longer I practice medicine the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don’t.

English author, actor, humorist & playwright

Erectile Dysfunction Probed with Engineering Tool

Tranquilizers work only if you follow the advice on the bottle – keep away from children.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

… having too much collateral in your blood.

An alcoholic is a person who drinks more than his own physician.

Serkin was so sick he almost died for three days.

(1899 – 1985) Hungarian-born conductor & violinist

The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your body and get interested in someone else's.

(Aiskowitz) (1899 – 1982) humorist

My uncle died of Lou Sterrett's disease.