A young doctor had moved to a small community near Broken Hill to replace a doctor who was retiring.
The older doctor suggested that the young one accompany him on his rounds so that the community would become used to their new doctor.
At the first house a woman complains, “I've been a little sick to my stomach.”
The older doctor says, “Well, you've probably been overdoing the fresh fruit
Why not cut back on the amount you've been eating and see if that does the trick?”
As they left, the younger man said, “You didn't even examine that woman, How did you come to your diagnosis so quickly?”
“I didn't have to
You noticed I dropped my stethoscope on the floor in there? When I bent over to pick it up, I noticed a half dozen banana peels in the waste bin I knew that was what probably was making her sick.”
The younger doctor said “Pretty clever
If you don't mind, I think I'll try that at the next house.”
Arriving at the next house, they spent several minutes talking with a younger woman.
She said that she just didn't have ...