{"id":22292,"date":"2026-04-14T19:54:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T19:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/?p=22292"},"modified":"2026-04-14T19:54:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T19:54:43","slug":"an-old-man-goes-to-his-doctor-complaining-about-a-pain-in-his-leg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/?p=22292","title":{"rendered":"An old man goes to his doctor, complaining about a pain in his leg."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_3401-168x300.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"168\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-22293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_3401-168x300.webp 168w, https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_3401.webp 572w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 168px) 100vw, 168px\" \/><br \/>\nAn old man goes to his doctor, complaining about a pain in his leg that doesn\u2019t heal, and wants a diagnosis and explanation.<\/p>\n<p>The doctor checks out his leg, but can\u2019t find anything wrong.<br \/>\nSo he gives the old guy a full physical exam, and still can\u2019t come up with any possible explanation for the pain.<\/p>\n<p>The doctor hands the patient his bill and says,<br \/>\n\u201cI\u2019m sorry but the pain in your leg is simply caused by old age, there\u2019s nothing I can do about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The old man replies with a look of disbelief,<br \/>\n\u201cThat\u2019s impossible! That can\u2019t be!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Doctor says,<br \/>\n\u201cWhat do you mean? I\u2019m the expert here; if you know so much, how can you say it\u2019s NOT old age?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The patient answers,<br \/>\n\u201cI\u2019m no doctor but it doesn\u2019t take a medical degree to tell that your diagnosis is wrong. Clearly you\u2019re mistaken. After all my other leg feels just fine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo what?\u201d says the doctor<br \/>\n\u201cWhat difference does that make?\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cWell it doesn\u2019t hurt a bit, and it\u2019s the SAME AGE!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An old man goes to his doctor, complaining about a pain in his leg that doesn\u2019t heal, and wants a diagnosis and explanation. The doctor checks out&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22293,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22294,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22292\/revisions\/22294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}