Stories about hospital
2 Buddhist wisdom stories about hospital from Buddhist teachers, each linked to the original talk.
- He didn't have a leg to stand onJoke · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: A motorcyclist's wrong leg is amputated; they take the other too. He sues and loses — he didn't have a leg to stand on.
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About the one... I think I told a few people. It is from Indonesia or Hong Kong. It's about that guy who went to hospital because he had an accident on a motorbike And they had to amputate his leg. Unfortunately it does happens; it happens here as well sometimes they amputate the wrong leg! Have you been in a hospital... actually even in these days high-tech hospitals like we have in Australia they actually write on there "this one" (Ajahn pointing) So they know which one they're supposed to be operating on. As soon as they realised their mistake they had to go into the surgery and get the other one cut off as well. And of course once he recovered the first thing he did was hire a lawyer and sue the hospital. But he lost his case. He lost his case, he didn't have a leg to stand on
- Please — no jokes after the hysterectomyStory · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: The society's former secretary, after a painful hysterectomy, asked Ajahn Brahm to visit but begged him not to tell jokes because laughing hurt. He tried and failed; the laughs…
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Ajahn Brahm, please, please, please no jokes; [laughter] because if I laugh it really hurts". And I did try my best, and I did fail (laughter from the audience) the poor lady she was like oooh ahh ooh-that really hurt. (laughing) So if you think my jokes are painful wait till you have a hysterectomy and hear them. (laughter) But it did take away much of her pain, with a few laughs in the hospital