Thursday, 5 July 2007

Oh Lord Why Won't You Fry Me My Mercedes Benz?

See, this is the standard of health professional we’ve come to expect here in the good old U of K. One can only imagine the interview.

“So Mr Ahmed, I see from your CV that your hobbies are darts, salsa dancing and jihad.”
“Sorry that’s a typo, it should read darts, salsa dancing and not jihad.”
“Oh good. I’m glad that’s that cleared up. We have quite strict rules about jihad in the NHS, it is rather frowned on.”
“I had no idea.”
“Ooh yes, you don’t know the half of it.”
“Fancy.”
“Okay...(ticks something off list) And I take it as read that you can Doctor a bit.”
“Phew, yes, like you wouldn’t believe. My Doctoring is second to none, second to none. My instructor at the terrorist school said that I was the best Doctor in my suicide bomber class.”
“Excellent (ticks off something else off on list, then stops mid-tick). Sorry did you say terrorist school and suicide bomber class?”
“Yes. I mean, no. No. No no no no. No. (Laughs) Did I say that? Oh what was I thinking? No. Ppff.”
“I’m pretty certain you did.”
“No, no, I said that the Senior Consultant at my hospital thought that I was the best suicide, hmm I mean, specialist in bones and medicine and stuff in my whole bit of said hospital.”
“Phew. I wrote down terrorist and suicide bomber, look (shows candidate, laughing). Me and my ears.”
“I get the same problem. Bomb making, boom! Can’t hear a thing for weeks.”
“I’ll pretend I didn’t hear that.”
“Hear what?” (Both laugh)
“Okay, when can you start?”
“Right now if you want. Hmmm, you did say that there would be a reserved parking space right by the hospital?”

2 comments:

Nik Savage said...

Does my bomb look big in this? A very good question, given that both obesity and terrorism seem to be on the increase. Incidentally, I was always told the NHS stood for No Hope Sunshine. Anyways, I was at the doctors last week, turns out I have an extreme allergy to iron - brings me out in a bloody rash with my body parts being severed at force and randomly distributed. The doctor did the test with a nail bomb.

Kolkhoz said...

Germ warfare within the hospitals, bombs outside of it, when is the UN going to step in and invade the NHS before it does for all of us?