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Courtroom Exchange of the Day: Doctor's Savage Pun on Lawyers

This image is a screenshot of a transcribed courtroom exchange labeled "Courtroom exchange of the day." It features a humorous back-and-forth between an attorney and a medical witness (doctor) during questioning about an autopsy. The attorney repeatedly asks if the doctor checked for signs of life before the autopsy, then presses if the patient could have been alive even after the doctor reveals the patient's brain was in a jar on their desk. The joke concludes with the doctor's sarcastic punchline: that the only way the patient could still be alive is if he was practicing law, a playful jab at the legal profession. The image shows page 2 of the transcript, with a partial question about a urine sample visible at the top of the page.
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ATTORNEY
Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?
WITNESS
No.
ATTORNEY
Did you check for blood pressure?
WITNESS
No.
ATTORNEY
Did you check for breathing?
WITNESS
No.
ATTORNEY
So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?
WITNESS
No.
ATTORNEY
How can you be so sure, Doctor?
WITNESS
Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.
ATTORNEY
But could the patient have still been alive, nevertheless?
WITNESS
Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law.

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Courtroom exchange of the day.

Overview

This image is a screenshot of a transcribed courtroom exchange labeled "Courtroom exchange of the day." It features a humorous back-and-forth between an attorney and a medical witness (doctor) during questioning about an autopsy. The attorney repeatedly asks if the doctor checked for signs of life before the autopsy, then presses if the patient could have been alive even after the doctor reveals the patient's brain was in a jar on their desk. The joke concludes with the doctor's sarcastic punchline: that the only way the patient could still be alive is if he was practicing law, a playful jab at the legal profession. The image shows page 2 of the transcript, with a partial question about a urine sample visible at the top of the page.

Origin notes

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