Ask Your Doctor 
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profession has its own share of words with curious origins that
now are questionable to current usage. For example:
Why are doctors only practicing medicine?
What emerges during an emergency?
Are you expected to be ambulatory to get to the ambulance?
Do doctors call a sick client a patient for a reason?
If the nurse checks your heart rate a second time, are you repulsed?
What surges during surgery?
If you have several strokes, are you doing swimmingly?
Would you allow an operator to perform an operation on you?
During a heart attack, is the heart attacking or is it being attacked?
If you are both nearsighted and farsighted, do you have perfect vision?
Why do they use a scalpel when they’re not operating on your head?
Wouldn’t you think antibiotics would kill anything biotic?
When physicians treat you, why do you end up paying?
Can you look up your other body parts in your appendix?
Does the word ophthalmology come from the letters on an eye chart?
Is being uneasy the same as being difficult?
Exactly what is being covered again in recovery?
Isn’t a stretcher something from the Spanish Inquisition?
When sick, wouldn’t you go to a medical doctor to be ill-advised?
Shouldn’t the doctor be ill-prepared and the patient ill-mannered?
Aren’t doctor’s fees ill-gotten gains?
Don’t you think psychiatrist should be committed?
At hospital admitting, did you ever hear them admit anything?
Can a toothbrush be used on more than one tooth at a time?
Would you say doctors are curious and waiting patients precarious?
If you have red blotches on your arm, should you get rash advice from your doctor?
How come having a cold means having a fever?
If you get sick at the airport, is that a terminal illness?
During an operation, isn't it senseless for a patient to get anesthesia?
Isn’t someone anesthetized in the operating room an outpatient?
Does a nurse have to be artistic to draw blood?
If you are cross-eyed and have dyslexia, can you read all right?
Isn’t it odd how the word hospital is related to hospitality?
Is it because first aid is so successful that we never hear of second aid?
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