We’re All Human
Doctor’s Stories
By Delbert Blickenstaff, M.D. 

Here are some stories which doctors whom I know have told on themselves. I’m not going to divulge the sources, but if you want to guess, be my guest. 

This happened back in the days when doctors made house calls. Dr. (A) was sleeping soundly when his telephone rang and he answered it sleepily. Mr. Smith said that his wife was sick and would the doctor please make a house call. “I’ll be right there,” Dr. A said.  He got up, dressed, put on his hat and coat, walked into the closet and closed the door (with him inside). About fifteen minutes later the doctor’s telephone rang again. “Where’s the doctor?” said Mr. Smith. “Just a minute,” said Mrs. A. She looked in the closet and there stood the doctor sound asleep. 

Dr. (B) was called one night when he was enjoying a good night’s sleep. “Would you please come to our house to see my husband? I think he’s very sick,” said Mrs. Brown. “I can’t come now because I’m very busy here at the hospital,” said Dr. B, even though Mr. Brown had called him at his home. 

Dr. (C) arrived at the hospital one morning to make his usual rounds when the nurses in the ER chided him about talking in his sleep. “What do you mean?” he asked. “When we called you last night about your patient who had fallen down a flight of stairs and was bruised from head to toe, you told us to send her home. We knew you wouldn’t say that if you were awake, so we called another doctor.” 

Delbert Blickenstaff, M.D.