RICHLAND, Wash., Nov. 14, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Experience the funny side of doctors as this book gives you the best humors ever created. Harold J. Ellner, M.D. offers The Best of Wits End, a compilation of the funniest humors extracted from The Wits End contest done by a magazine during a fifteen-year span. Who knew doctors could be flat-out funny?
Wits End is a department of a magazine that is devoted to publishing physicians' pastimes and interests. For several decades, the last page of Diversion, the leisure magazine for physicians, held a monthly contest to tap the lode of wit in medical minds. It required doctors to come up with puns, one-liners, and other crimes against the English language. It filled some needs such as strengthening the camaraderie of doctors as doctors; it invoked formidable satirical talent and it surfaced creative expressions of criticism at latter-day constraints on medical practice under the cloak of humor.
Visit every page as it tickles your funny bones with humorous situations and lines. From using medical terms to x-rated jokes, this is a must-read book best shared with friends and family. Order a copy now.
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About the Author
Harold J. Ellner, M.D., a retired urologist, practiced in Richland, Washington. During and after this career, he published several articles dealing with both medical and non-medical humor. Some of these have appeared in Verbatim, SPELL, Northwest medicine, and the Journal of the American Medical Association.
He teaches at the local community college, volunteers in the English as a Second Language program, and for many years has been editor of the Rotary club newsletter.
Creating and judging The Wits End contests in Diversion Magazine constituted a second career of sorts during a fifteen-year span.
The Best of Wits End * by Harold J. Ellner, M.D.
Medical Humor at Its Brainiest
Publication Date: November 11, 2008
Trade Paperback; $23.99; 454 pages; 978-1-4363-0615-7
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