{"product_id":"9781440199226","title":"What's New, Doc?: a collection of funny, poignant, and even scandalous medical stories","description":"\"Medicine can be raunchy!\" is the comment a friend made when I shared some of my stories with her.\u003cp\u003e Another friend stated, \"These stories are outrageous!\" and his statement gave me an idea for the subtitle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e My reply to these friends is, \"But they are all true. In fact, you should have heard the ones I rejected, in the interest of propriety.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e According to my three children, belonging to a family in which both parents are physicians requires a strong constitution. Stories shared at the dinner table were sometimes funny, sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes carried a moral, and often involved gory details, which my children would have preferred we left out. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e One of the stories with a moral was that of a teenager, who hitched a ride with a man, who was driving drunk. In the accident, which caused the young man to be brought to the E. R., he sustained severe abdominal injuries and lost his spleen. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e That day the moral of the story was, \"Do not hitch hike!\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e DUI, became the dinner topic on the day when an injured, drunk patient was brought in to the E. R. after running his car into a parked patrol cruiser. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e My stories are short and pithy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e They will make you laugh. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e They will make you cry. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e They will make you shake your head, for whatever reason. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e They will make you wish you had shared a story. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e They will make you healthy, because laughter is good medicine.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"iUniverse, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48534309339377,"sku":"9781440199226","price":20.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9781440199226_p0.jpg?v=1786369260","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781440199226","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}