Dianne is a Chief resident in neurosurgery who after a seven-year courtship decides to marry. She realizes that a window of time exists between when she finishes her residency and her fellowship starts, only a month later. Her plan to wear her grandmother’s bridal gown is in jeopardy, however, because during her residency she gained considerable weight and is unlikely to fit into a size 6 gown. Thinking where there’s a will, there’s a way, …

The song “Take Me Home, Country Roads” reminds the listener of nature’s beauty, rolling hills, heaven, the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Shenandoah River. Maybe the vistas along interstate highway 81 inspired the songwriter anxious to be home in West Virginia. In a way, the song reminds me of the lymphatic drainage of the abdomen. …

In ice hockey there has never been anyone better than the Great One, Wayne Gretzky. He scored more goals and had more career assists than was thought humanely possible. Gretzky’s trick was to avoid the “sweep check” in which an opposing player goes down on one knee and sweeps his stick along the ice to steal the puck. …

Freddy, a third-year medical student, is a spelunker extraordinaire, or so he thinks. All he ever talks about is cave diving, how small a hole he can traverse, how deep he can go, how long he can stay underground without sunlight and so on and so on. . ….

Hansel Bach was born to be a composer. He mastered the organ by age three, but his passion was the ukulele. [Of course, Taylor Swift could have learned something from Hansel.] But poor Hansel’s dreamed-of path to musical stardom took an unwanted and unfortunate turn due to his surname. ….

While waiting for Godot, Estragon runs into his old friend Vladimir, and they both decide instead of continuing to wait to go for a beer, where they meet Sam. …

Georgette is a lively 35 yo who revels in exercise, healthy eating and hard work. She is a successful entrepreneur who runs several small businesses in spite of inheriting a rather large investment portfolio from her parents that left her not needing to work. Her significant other, Bobby, is from a similar background but pretends that his wealth did not come from “Daddy”. Bobby spends most of the time at the gym and encourages Georgette to do the same. In fact, he begins to rail against Georgette that she is gaining weight and that her abdomen is showing signs of distention. …

Two friends finish their general surgery residencies and decide to head west to a dude ranch to celebrate. While on the trail, one of them develops sharp, gripping pain in the upper right abdomen, followed by nausea/vomiting. What everyone thought was a tan, now becomes clear as really the onset of jaundice. They ride back to the ranch where the two residents agree that the healthy one should go ahead and perform a cholecystectomy at the well-stocked dude ranch clinic. What could possibly go wrong? …