A young man had completed medical school.
He went back home to the small town to work with his father. They went out the first day
to make house calls. As they went in the first house, the father told his son to watch him
so he would know what to do.
Inside a woman was in the bed and she
looked terrible. The old doctor checked her out. He was making notes when he dropped his
pen to the floor. He picked it up and told the woman she needed to quit cleaning and
working so hard in her house, she just needed rest.
When they got outside the son asked how he
knew she was cleaning to much. The old doctor said that when he dropped his pen on the
floor, it was so clean there wasn't a speck of dust anywhere.
When they arrived at the next house the
father told his son it was his turn to play doctor.
At this house too, the woman was in bed,
looking terrible. The young doctor took her blood pressure and pulse, asked a few
questions, made some notes. Then he dropped his pen and reached down to pick it up. Then
he told the woman she was doing too much church work and needed to cut down on what she
did.
When the doctors got outside the old doctor
asked the young one how he knew she was doing too much church work.
The young man said, "When I bent down
to pick up my pen, I saw the preacher under the bed."
