Doctor apologizes for fat jokes in Outpatient Surgery Magazine column

[Liberal_in_LA]

Doctor apologizes for fat jokes in Outpatient Surgery Magazine column

Facing deadline pressure, orthopedic surgeon and humor writer John D. Kelly IV collected 27 jokes about fat patients and put them in his monthly Outpatient Surgery Magazine column. Here are a few of

Be real concerned if:

-Your patient has more chins than a Chinese phonebook.
-Your patient has stretch marks on his teeth.
-Your patient has a dog named Twinkie.
-Your patient has more chins than a Chinese. (racial slurs too…they CAN’T be serious)
-Your patient has a daughter named Tostitos.

The doctor and part-time standup comic bombed with readers and his bosses at the University of Pennsylvania, who said in a statement that the “comments do not in any way reflect” the health system’s views.

http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/romenesko/151321/doctor-apologizes-for-fat-jokes-in-outpatient-surgery-magazine-column/

[woodsprite]

1. Yeah, I bet that drew a lot of clients to him. n/t

[jerseygal]

2. He's a sports' medicine orthopedist - takes care

of athletes.

I don't think it will hurt him one bit getting patients - except maybe among sumo wrestlers.

And actually, if you meet him, he is a rather funny guy. I've never heard him tell fat jokes

but he is quite amusing.