According to the Local, aka “Sweden’s News In English,” a doctor told a 65-year-old Swedish man he was pregnant. When we see headlines like these in the Local, we often wonder if someone is mis-translating Swedish news into English. According to the Local, the man said:
“The doctor joked I was pregnant, and then told me I’d have to do another test!” he said with a laugh.
If it was us, we would have laughed too, and said “Doctor, you should have to do another test in medical school! You know the one that explains the difference between men, and women, and menopause, and bad Arnold Schwarzenegger movies called Junior. That test.”
Fortunately, the first test sample gave a wrong result because it came into contact with some contaminated bacteria, so there’s hopefully nothing to worry about if you’re expecting your medical results to not be inadvertently mixed with contaminated bacteria. Unless you have medical tests done at your favorite teen-managed fast food restaurant. But if it you are a 65-year-old man who is diagnosed as pregnant, remember it could be worse, here are:
3 Worse Diagnoses A Licensed Medical Doctor In Sweden Could Give A Patient
1. “You Have IKEA Furniture Assembly Deficiency Syndrome. And the only cure is assembly of this desk in my office!” Don’t ever fall for this ploy! It’s certain to lead to frustration when you assemble half the thing and realize you put the drawers on the back of the desk, and the handles on the insider of the drawers!
Is this mannequin in a Stockholm store front also pregnant? Or just half-assembled by someone not good at assembling IKEA furniture, either?
2. “You Have IKEA Furniture Dis-Assembly Deficiency Syndrome. And the only cure is to dis-assemble this funny looking desk in my office!” Clearly a scam to get a second patient to figure how to pry apart the delicate pieces that the first patient mis-assembled.
3. “You Are In Desperate Need Of Retail Therapy! Please take this ‘prescription’ for a box of parts that somehow form a desk to the nearest IKEA, and return the box to my office immediately!” Don’t fall for this attempt of the doctor to get a non-screwed up desk! Chances are he didn’t put a map of IKEA on that prescription, and you may spend hours wandering around lost in the store, like some plastic-glassware-accessory-Blair-Witch-Project victim, before you can even return to the office and get tricked into assembling the desk.
