excerpt from one of the many emails being tossed around my family about this years xmas party...

"I will, of course, have plenty of surgical masks with me for participants, as well as hand sanitizer. Flu shots will be made available in the parking lot. Twenty-five dollars per shot should cover my costs. I can arrange for a standby ambulance if necessary. Nancy is quite capable of intubations for seriously ill patients. Other than that, I'm sure everything should be fine. We may have a problem with Complete Cardiac Arrest."

None of that is a joke. My uncle is a doctor, and he is apparently under the impression that swine flu is quite like the plague. I read this and my immediate reaction was "......." *head hits desk in shame/humor*