Laughter: The Drug of Choice
Definitive Doses of the Best Medicine
Nicholas Hoesl www.laughterdoc.com
Reviews

MIDWEST INDEPENDENT PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION:

This is a marvellously funny book of medical jokes.

 (Recipient  of  the Humor Silver Award in 2008)

 

FROM DRUG TOPICS MAGAZINE:

In Laughter: The Drug of Choice, Nicholas Hoesl has collected jokes, clever wordplay, quotations, and definitions. Here are a few definitions to help pharmacists get through the day.

COUNTERIRRITANT: A person who should be kept out of the pharmacy, whereas over-the-counter irritants should be thrown out.

DOCTOR: One who suffers from good health; a guy who will tell you if you don't cut out something, he'll cut something out of you.

DENTIST: One who always looks down in the mouth.

ORAL SUSPENSION: Lack of patient counseling.

PHARMACIST: One who fills your pain; a pillar of society.

PRESCRIPTION: Hieroglyphics written by a physician and translated by a pharmacist into dollar signs. 

 

OHIO PHARMACIST MAGAZINE SAMPLER:

 APLASTIC ANEMIA:  Poor credit rating.

HOMEOPATHY:   Dilutions of grandeur.

SITZ BATH:  A poor man's spa.

IRONIC TWIST:  While men are pumping iron, women are popping Fem-Iron.

NITROUS OXIDE:  The only gas that's guaranteed to make you laugh.