About 20 years ago I had a lump on my shoulder blade removed, it seemed like a simple procedure so I had the new, young doctor in town do it in the hospital emergency room.

The doctor was a nice guy but during the procedure I found our that he was unprepared and inexperienced. He had no one to help him and did not have the correct instruments or amount of supplies needed; later the wound became very infected. The operation was not going well and I was getting nauseous so I started talking to the doctor to take my mind off the difficulties.

I asked him, "So, what did you do before you became a doctor"? He replied that he was a Geologist, and I have the scar to prove it!

Mike

(P.S. No slight against Geologists intended here, but this doctor should have stayed in mining instead of medicine).