Last Laugh

In the Jocular Vein

In the beginning

A woman brought in her elderly mother so I could look at a pruritic rash on her leg. There was a great deal of excoriation, and I asked the daughter whether there had been a primary lesion. "No,"she said, "I think it just started from scratch."

—Stephen Schechter, MD
Rockville, MD

Last Laugh.

Medical Economics

2003;7:136.