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The Story of Lawyer and a Doctor

A doctor was being sued for malpractice – the new lawyer on the case was anxious to win his case

Question: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?

Answer: No.

Question: Did you check for blood pressure?

Answer: No.

Question: Did you check for breathing?

Answer: No

Question: Then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?

Answer: No

Question: Doctor How can you be so sure?

Answer: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.

Question: But couldn’t the patient been...

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