Sober Irish

I know, the racial slurs. I get them all the time and can't say I enjoy the malicious ones. But sometimes, harmless jokes get everybody laughing.

We met a old Irish gentleman in ward round this morning, who was fortunately well enough to chat socially. So while the cardio reg was trying his hardest to obtain a history, an Irish consultant budded in and started making small talk. It didn't get any better when our consultant turned up cause he started telling jokes. Anyway, part of the history taking is asking for alcohol consumption, and the patient said he doesn't drink anymore, he's allergic to alcohol. He had been drinking all his life, but developed an anaphylaxic reaction while drinking with his brother one night and all of a sudden he has an allergy to alcohol. "can't touch a glass of whiskey," he said. And this is funny cause, well, an Irish who's allergic to alcohol.

The consultant started telling jokes and another Reg came to find the team in a sea of laughter, this is the joke the consultant told:

An Englishman goes to his doctor and said he wanted to become an Irish. His doctor says "alright, but that means we will need to do some radical operations on you; we need to perform a lobotomy, cut out half of your brain." The Englishman really wanted to become an Irish, so he agreed with it. When he wakes up from the operation, the doctor was there looking worried. The doctor says to him, "I am sorry sir, but the operation had bit of a complication, and we took out much more than half of your brain." To which the patient replied "she'll be right, mate!"

My new consultant is a very approach person, it's a nice change, and it feels pleasantly strange. He's the type of person that smiles with his eyes and coupled with a really easy going attitude, which really reminds me of Robin Williams without the crazy babbling impersonating part. You know the type of people with a quirky and genuinely infectious smile, whose looks at you straight in the eye during those prolonged laughter to see that their tickles has also made you giggle?