Joke

An attorney for an injured patient was cross-examining the chief surgeon during a malpractice trial - it went like this:

Q. Doctor, did you examine my client the day of his surgery?

A. No sir, but the description of the abdomen was consistent with an acute inflammation of the appendix.

Q. Doctor, since you did not personally examine the patient that day, who provided you with this description?

A. My chief resident.

Q. A trainee examined the patient and you operated based on his description. . Do you trust your residents?

A. Yes sir, with my life.

Q. With your life? Let me ask you this then doctor - do you have a locker room in the surgical area - a room where you scrub your hands and change your clothes in preparation for surgery?

A. Yes sir, we do.

Q. And do you have a locker in that room?

A. Yes sir, I do.

Q. And do you have a lock on your locker?

A. Yes sir.

Q. Now why is it, doctor, if you trust your residents and staff with your life, that you find it necessary to lock your locker in a room you share with those same doctors?

A. You see sir, we share that locker room with the administrative suite, and sometimes lawyers and administrators have been known to walk through the room.