Hmos, Home Remedies & Other Medical Jokes

Is it true that laughter's the best medicine?It is when Linda Perret dispenses doses like this: "My HMO insurance plan is a little cheap. Instead of an anesthesia, they just provide you with a flock of numbered sheep."Or when she describes one of the bizarre home remedies she collected from vintage sources: "To cure a sore throat drink hot rum spiked with gun powder." To which she retorts: "Of course it cures your sore throat -- it shoots your tonsils right off."Perret, Linda is the author of 'Hmos, Home Remedies & Other Medical Jokes', published 2002 under ISBN 9781893860827 and ISBN 1893860825.