Well, doc, it seemed like a good idea at the time! : the unexpected adventures of a trauma surgeon

In 1976, Paul Waymack began chronicling his experience as a third-year medical student, and for the next 20 years, he kept a journal filled with crazy stories of unusual patients, maladies, and international espionage. Some of them, he’s the first to admit, seem unbelievable--like chasing a naked patient around the ER parking lot in the middle of the night . . . or constructing a horse sling for a 700-pound patient . . . or treating a patient who swallowed a cigarette lighter . . . or serving as a major in the U.S. Army Medical Corps during the Cold War, on orders of the president and with a KGB agent hot on his tail in the Soviet Union. In his wildest dreams, Dr. Waymack could never have imagined most of what he experienced as a doctor, but these stories are all true. He couldn’t have made them up if he tried.This is non-fiction humor not fiction humor but there's no category for that. In 1976, Paul Waymack began chronicling his experience as a third-year medical student. For the next 20 years, through residency and into his career as a burn trauma surgeon and world-class researcher, he continued journaling about unusual patients, maladies, and international espionage. Many of these stories-like chasing a naked patient around the ER parking lot at midnight, constructing a horse sling for a 700-pound patient, treating a patient who swallowed a cigarette lighter, or being tailed by a KGB agent-seem too crazy to be true, but Dr. Waymack couldn't have made them up if he'd tried