The Placebo Chronicles: Strange But True Tales From the Doctors' Lounge - Softcover

Farrago M.D., Douglas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0767919491 ISBN 13: 9780767919494

Publisher: Broadway Books, 2005

Synopsis

True Tales of the ridiculous, the silly, and the just plain weird cases doctors face—lampooning the medical bureaucracy that makes practicing medicine and getting medical care such a headache.

Doctors have a sick sense of humor. This is the deep, dark, and hilarious secret of the medical profession revealed by the irreverent Dr. Douglas Farrago in his popular satirical magazine, Placebo Journal—affectionately known by its thousands of fanatic readers as “Mad magazine for doctors” and called, by U.S. News.com, “raunchy, adolescent, and very funny.” Now, in The Placebo Chronicles, Dr. Farrago has compiled the best of the most outrageous and uproarious true stories to come out of the ERs and examination rooms of doctors all over the country.

Submitted by actual physicians, these are the stories they tell each other at cocktail parties and in doctors’ lounges, trading sidesplitting and truly unusual tales of their most embarrassing medical moments, the grossest things they’ve ever seen in medicine, their favorite Munchausen patients, and much more, including “The X-Ray Files”—mind-boggling anecdotes and images of the oddest foreign objects doctors have removed from patients. Not for the faint of heart, the humor in The Placebo Chronicles is brutally funny—just what the doctor ordered to guard against the ill effects of an M.D.’s worst enemies: the Medical Axis of Evil, a.k.a. drug companies, HMOs, and malpractice insurers.

Fully illustrated with fake advertisements—for pseudopharmaceuticals like OxyCotton Candy and Indifferex (the mediocre antidepressant)—this refreshingly honest collection invites doctors and patients alike to share the laughter, a liberal dose of the very best medicine.

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From the Inside Flap:

Doctors have a sick sense of humor. This is the deep, dark, and hilarious secret of the medical profession, a secret revealed by the irreverent Dr. Doug Farrago in his popular satirical magazine, Placebo Journal—affectionately known by its thousands of fanatic readers as "Mad magazine for doctors." Now, in The Placebo Chronicles, Dr. Farrago has compiled the best of the most outrageous and scathingly funny true stories to come out of the ERs and examination rooms of doctors all over the country.

Sent in by real physicians, these are the stories they tell each other at cocktail parties and in the doctors' lounge, trading sidesplitting and truly unusual tales of their most embarrassing medical moments, the grossest things they've ever seen in medicine, their favorite Munchausen patients, and much more, including "The X-Ray Files"—mind-boggling anecdotes and images of the oddest foreign objects doctors have removed from patients. Not for the faint of heart, the humor in The Placebo Chronicles is brutally funny—just what the doctor ordered to guard against the ill effects of an M.D.'s worst enemies: the Medical Axis of Evil, a.k.a. drug companies, HMOs, and malpractice insurers.

Fully illustrated with fake advertisements—for pseudopharmaceuticals like OxyCotton Candy and Indifferex (the mediocre antidepressant)—this refreshingly honest collection invites doctors and patients alike to share the laughter, taking a liberal dose of the very best medicine.

About the Author:

DR. DOUGLAS FARRAGO is a family physician who started the bimonthly Placebo Journal in 2000. A frequent lecturer and media commentator, Dr. Farrago lives in Auburn, Maine.

About this edition

• Publisher: Broadway Books
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0767919491
• ISBN 13: 9780767919494
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208
• Illustrator: Marshall Gordon W.