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Medicine can be raunchy! is the comment a friend made when I shared some of my stories with her.<p>Another friend stated These stories are outrageous! and his statement gave me an idea for the subtitle.<p>My reply to these friends is But they are all true. In fact you should have heard the ones I rejected in the interest of propriety.<p>According to my three children belonging to a family in which both parents are physicians requires a strong constitution. Stories shared at the dinner table were sometimes funny sometimes heartbreaking sometimes carried a moral and often involved gory details which my children would have preferred we left out. <p>One of the stories with a moral was that of a teenager who hitched a ride with a man who was driving drunk. In the accident which caused the young man to be brought to the E. R. he sustained severe abdominal injuries and lost his spleen. <p>That day the moral of the story was Do not hitch hike! <p>DUI became the dinner topic on the day when an injured drunk patient was brought in to the E. R. after running his car into a parked patrol cruiser. <p>My stories are short and pithy. <p>They will make you laugh. <p>They will make you cry. <p>They will make you shake your head for whatever reason. <p>They will make you wish you had shared a story. <p>They will make you healthy because laughter is good medicine.