DR. BAXENDALE: "[PHYSICIANS] WEAR MASKS FOR THE SAME REASON AS ANY OTHER ROBBER -- TO CONCEAL THEIR IDENTITIES"
PITTSBURGH - UPMC Hospital has announced the addition of a new wing designed to accommodate surgical procedures that remove brain tumors through the nose.
"And that's how the patients will pay for it, too -- through the nose," said Dr. Hadley V. Baxendale, director of the Endoscopic Transnatal Brain Surgery Unit. "We give my new surgical unit this big name so that patients'll think it's some scientific big deal. This helps us get away with charging a lot," Dr. Baxendale chuckled.
Dr. Baxendale explained that for those deadbeat patients who refuse to pay for "through the nose" surgery, he has another surgical procedure -- "I take it out of their ass," he said.
