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The Glooove Doctor
Supermodel Tyra Banks was often approached by fans looking for more than an auto...
Innuen-doh!
The British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald and his spinster sister once visited...
Special Attention
Such was James McNeill Whistler's arrogance that when his dog developed a throat...
Richard Branson: Bottom Line
Having built Virgin Records into a respected label, Richard Branson decided the ...
Reagan Wit
In March 1981, president Ronald Reagan was shot in the chest by a would-be assas...
Robin Williams & Christophe...
At Juilliard, Robin Williams and Christopher Reeve made a pact to help one anoth...
Howie Mandel: Physical Exam
One day in 2006, Howie Mandel visited his doctor's office for a physical exam. B...
Surgical Precision
One day, a witness in Judge Edward Ellenborough's courtroom was asked to identif...
Trouser Moose?
Having performed some 20,000 autopsies, New York City Coroner Michael Baden had ...
Melancholy
One day Dr. John Abernethy was visited by a patient complaining of melancholy. "...
Your Name?
Having performed some 20,000 autopsies, New York City Coroner Michael Baden had ...
Tarred
To break an appointment one day, Robert Benchley visited a hospital feigning an ...
Dr. Hepburn
Katharine Hepburn's early career was marked by a series of pictures of such medi...
Virchow's Blessing?
One day when appendectomy operations were just becoming standard medical practic...
Mayo
One morning, Dr. Mayo's mail was found to contain a letter from a spiritualist. ...
Humanitarian Doctor
Though famed for his humanitarian work in field hospitals during the Spanish Civ...
Coulda Been
American vice presidents have historically held remarkably little political powe...
Lister
One day Joseph Lister was summoned to assist a wealthy lord with a fishbone whic...
Joseph Bell: Cheeky Diagnosis
One day Dr. Joseph Bell (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's medical school mentor and the ...
Poisonous Accusation
When Alexander became seriously ill while marching through Asia Minor, his physi...
Boy Scout
The famed brain surgeon Bronson Ray was out for a stroll one day when he saw a b...
Farquhar!
Sir Walter Farquhar was once visited by an elderly patient who had become convin...
MacRx
During one of his American tours, William Macready, famed for his illegible hand...
Lost Patients?
At the age of ninety, Konrad Adenauer caught a severe cold. His physician, exasp...
Good Doctor?
During the proceedings of a certain meeting of the Kit-Kat Club, Dr. Samuel Gart...
NYPD Blues?
Despite her love of acting, Lourdes Benedicto was expected to pursue a more trad...
Average Doctor?
On his way to the cricket ground one day, W. G. Grace ("The Doctor") was accoste...
Inaugural Yapper
Following his election in 1841, President William Henry Harrison delivered the l...
Doctor's Orders
One day Otto Hartleben fell ill and consulted a doctor. After a thorough examina...
Semmelweis
While working at Vienna's general hospital, Ignaz Semmelweis, having discovered ...
Naked Gun?
One day Humphrey Howarth, having been challenged to a duel, appeared at the appo...
Garfield's Death (long)
Just two hundred days into his presidency, James Garfield was shot by a lawyer n...
Deepest Secrets of the Medi...
When the famous Dutch physician and chemist Hermann Boerhaave died in 1738, he l...
Major Aneurism?
In 1997, Dana Carvey underwent open-heart surgery for a blocked artery. Sadly th...
Einstein's Promise
While working with fellow physicist Abraham Pais at the Princeton Institute for ...
Yogi Berra & Doctor Zhivago
Yogi Berra was famed for his verbal bloopers. One day his wife told him that she...
George W. Bush: Love & War
"I went to the Congress last September and proposed supplemental funding," Georg...
George Clooney: Playing Doctor
While George Clooney, who dropped out of the University of Kentucky, was never d...
Stephen Leacock, Ph.D
After receiving his Ph.D, Stephen Leacock embarked upon a trip to the Orient. Pr...
Royal Guidance
Throughout the latter part of the nineteenth century, thousands of William I's s...
Bean Trees
In an effort to battle a spell of insomnia precipitated be her first pregnancy, ...
Batchmaker?
Pat Wexler, the famed New York "dermatologist to the stars," often dispensed acn...
Medical Advice
Oscar Wilde's battle with the Marquis of Queensberry (his lover's father) began ...
Doctor in the Clubhouse
W. G. Grace often had difficulty reconciling his love for cricket with his medic...
Hemorrhoids
One day the young Tennyson, suffering from a painful case of hemorrhoids, visite...
Local Anesthesia (long)
"February 15, 1921. New York City. The operating room of the Kane Summit Hospita...
Ice Sculpture (long)
"American actor Walter O'Keefe, invited to address a convention of chiropodists ...
Pope's Last Words
Though lying on his deathbed, Alexander Pope was assured by his doctor one day t...
Tea Lover
"Not only is Tony Benn a teetotaller, he is a total tea drinker, consuming at le...
Millikan, PhD
While passing through a hall in their home one day, the wife of the Nobel Prize-...
Como Estas?
"Star Wars movies are passport-intensive. Attack of the Clones was filmed...
Cabbage Treatment
The famous German physician Helm was once visited by a female patient suffering ...
Bloody Waste
George Washington died in 1799 after losing about two and a half litres of blood...
Surgeon-Extraordinary?
19th Century surgeons hardly envisioned the progress which would be made by thei...
Tomorrow
Johannes Brahms loved food and was gravely disappointed when he contracted an il...
Clear Message
"Jed Harris... became convinced he was losing his hearing. He went to a speciali...
Workaholic?
The noted surgeon Joseph Green endeavored, even on his deathbed, to treat himsel...
Lady Doctor (long)
Nineteenth Century conventional wisdom held that intimate knowledge of anatomy a...
Bush Doctor?
George W. Bush once appeared in the New York Times opposite a curiously j...
Otto was once examined by a re
Otto was once examined by a renowned Viennese physician. Bothered by the man's e...
Ziegfeld Follies
"Showman Florenz Ziegfeld [the producer behind the Ziegfeld Follies] believed in...
Pasteur's Crypt
In 1885, Louis Pasteur used his knowledge of innoculation to save the life of a ...
Young Bikram Choudhury: Min...
At thirteen, Bikram Choudhury - inventor of Bikram yoga - won the National India...
Schwarzenberg
Schwarzenberg was once visited by a doctor who warned him that continued failure...
One-Way Ticket?
"M. Roux, the distinguished surgeon, was a man of remarkable character. A wealth...
Ten Dollar Treatment
"Many patients came to Dr. Trudeau with insufficient funds. 'Doctor,' said one o...
Blue Blooded?
One day while he was trying to stop his gardener's pet monkey from attacking his...
Doctor's Appointment
In 1938, the Germans raided and ransacked Sigmund Freud's Vienna office and empt...
Black Humor
An enthusiastic tennis player, Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black was dismayed one...
Shirley You're Joking
"I had a video made of my recent knee operation," Shirley MacLaine once remarked...
Workaholic?
The noted Swiss physician Albrecht von Haller endeavored, even on his deathbed, ...
Inspector-General
Dr. James Barry became a general in the army of Queen Victoria. Barry entered th...
Howard Dean
One day during his campaign for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination, Ver...
Young Sally Field
Sally Field was a natural. "When I was born," she once recalled, "the doctor loo...
Bloodletting
"Until only a few generations ago, the prevailing conception of illness was that...
Glenn Cunningham
When he was eight years old Glenn Cunningham was so badly burned that doctors to...
In the Red?
One day Frank Sinatra asked his doctor about a recent series of fainting spells....
Taciturn Patient
A young woman, well aware of John Abernethy's intense dislike of prattling chit ...
Coping Mechanism
One day, Dr. William Osler encountered his young niece as he was leaving a patie...
Career Change
Jean Foucault (who proved that light travels more slowly in water than it does i...
Bad Medicine
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle may have been rather ambivalent about the quality of his ...
Phyllis Diller
"I work clean but I don't talk clean at home," Phyllis Diller once confessed. "I...
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