10. You’ve got a pack of Marlboros rolled up in your lab coat sleeve.

9. You never appear in public without a half-empty bottle of Bacardi rum.

8. Morning, noon and night, you can be found wandering around in a hospital gown.

7. Always confusing defibrillator with fry-o-lator.

As public television viewers in 12 cities sat glued to their sets while doctors in Philadelphia reconstructed 15-month-old Michele Miller’s skull during a two-hour operation broadcast live.

A young doctor just out of medical school announced to his wife that he planned to specialize in gynecology.

Here are some excuses doctors and physical therapists heard from patients explaining why they can’t exercise, according to "The Physician and Sportsmedicine":