Resident: Hey, found an interesting new patient for you! REALLY interesting!
Me: Oh, cool!
Resident: Should I tell you more abou—? Naaaaah. Want to just figure this guy out yourself? By doing the H&P?
Me: Sure! Absolutely!
Enters patient room with an obnoxious excess of enthusiasm.
Me: Excuse me – sir? Hi! I’m Action Potential, a 3rd year medical student from Metropolis Med. Can I ask you some questions and do a quick physical exam?
Patient: *nods*
Me: Great. Can you tell me why you came to the hospital?
Patient: *nods*
Me: … Oh. Okay. Why did you come to the hospital?
Patient: *nods*
Two Nurses Standing Outside: *snickering*
Me: … Sir? … Can you speak?
Patient: PTHTHTHB.
Two Nurses Standing Outside: *outright laughter*
Patient: *falls asleep, drooling slightly*
Me: … soooo, can the patient talk?
Nurse: Well, if you’d read his chart, you’d know he doesn’t talk.
Me: … I see.
Nurse: You finished? I need to change the IV.
Me: … Apparently. *leaves*
I didn’t think it was a very funny joke.
This story has an even more unfortunate ending, though, which is that “But I thought you were joking” is not a good excuse when the resident asks you to give a full presentation and plan for that patient.
Stop shaking your head at me. I thought it was a mean joke! I know full well that some patients in the hospital can’t talk! I just.. you know…? They have…
… I mean…
… shutup.
Action Potential 
That was a remarkably prickish thing of the resident to do.
Oh Wow. Actually really rude.
resident completely unprofessional and immature. Not funny at all….
but then I’ve always been a humorless bitch (or so I was told by classmates who were still mentally adolescent).
My close friends have told me that I can be very mean sometimes, and I can tell you that, as a jerk, I wouldn’t even stoop to that level. Why are people like that doctors? 😦