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Beamer over on Braintalk started a thread about hospital humor.

Hospital spiney humor - BrainTalk Communities

Here is my contribution:

Several years ago, I went to Germany for a client's cervical surgery. He and his wife had a wonderful sense of humor and we really had a wonderful week together. Before his surgery, I made a sick joke, but I never thought he'd follow through with it or even have the wherewith-all to do it when he woke up in the recovery room.

He had a birth defect and was missing a hand. As the recovery room nurse was tending to him and he was starting to come around, he pulled his missing hand arm out from under the covers and yelled, "OMG, what did you do to my hand!"

His humor was not appreciated.