The article focuses on humorous experiences of several surgeons. One surgeon writes that once a frail gentleman handed him a piece of paper, writing down his problems for the surgeon. It felt to him like a reversed direction as it was always he who wrote out the prescriptions. Another surgeon had gone on an urgent home visit to a woman with a suspected acute abdomen. While examining her, he got to know the cause as one of her dogs landed right in the middle of her belly.