Die Martin Die@sh.itjust.works to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · edit-225 days agoThe audacitysh.itjust.worksexternal-linkmessage-square32fedilinkarrow-up1933arrow-down113file-text
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minus-squareEnsign_Crab@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up33arrow-down1·25 days agoReminds me of a joke I once heard from an ER nurse: Why do they nail coffins shut? To keep oncologists out.
minus-squareReanuKeeves@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·25 days agoIs the implication that oncologists want to keep patients alive enough to keep draining their bank account?
minus-squarezach@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·25 days agoI think it also means oncologists are the type of people who keep hoping when treatment seems futile. “Don’t die yet, maybe one more round of chemo will cure you”
minus-squareEnsign_Crab@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·25 days agoNot with the way I heard it delivered.
Reminds me of a joke I once heard from an ER nurse:
Why do they nail coffins shut?
To keep oncologists out.
Is the implication that oncologists want to keep patients alive enough to keep draining their bank account?
I think it also means oncologists are the type of people who keep hoping when treatment seems futile. “Don’t die yet, maybe one more round of chemo will cure you”
Not with the way I heard it delivered.
Yes.