{"id":11919,"date":"2026-11-01T23:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T23:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bbdc.it.com\/?p=11919"},"modified":"2026-11-01T23:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T23:20:08","slug":"the-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbdc.it.com\/?p=11919","title":{"rendered":"The Diagnosis."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man visits his doctor feeling seriously ill and asks how much time he has left. The doctor answers, \u201cTen.\u201d Worried, the patient asks whether he means ten months or ten weeks. The doctor simply replies, \u201cNine\u2026\u201d leaving the man even more confused.<\/p>\n<p>Another patient complains that touching his shoulder, knee, or forehead causes terrible pain. After listening to his symptoms, the doctor quickly discovers the problem: the man has a broken finger.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a patient waiting for surgery becomes terrified after hearing a nurse repeatedly say, \u201cDon\u2019t be nervous. It\u2019s only a small operation.\u201d Unable to take it anymore, he jumps off the operating table and runs away. His fear becomes understandable when he realizes the nurse wasn\u2019t speaking to him but trying to calm down the surgeon.<\/p>\n<p>At a psychiatric hospital, a doctor draws a door on the wall and invites the patients to leave. While everyone else tries to open it, one man remains seated, smiling confidently. When the doctor asks why, he whispers, \u201cI\u2019m the one with the key.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Finally, a 90-year-old woman visits her doctor because she regularly passes gas without hearing or smelling anything. He prescribes medication and asks her to return a week later. When she complains that the gas now smells terrible, the doctor smiles and says, \u201cVery well. Now, about your hearing\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man visits his doctor feeling seriously ill and asks how much time he has left. The doctor answers, \u201cTen.\u201d Worried, the patient asks whether he means&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbdc.it.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbdc.it.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbdc.it.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbdc.it.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbdc.it.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bbdc.it.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11921,"href":"https:\/\/bbdc.it.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11919\/revisions\/11921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbdc.it.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbdc.it.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbdc.it.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbdc.it.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}