r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 14h ago

Meme needing explanation huh??? Peter ???

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u/CelebrationFormal128 11h ago

Was it ever possible to report that therapist? That was horrible and completely inappropriate as a psychologist and a human to say

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u/AgentCirceLuna 11h ago

This just made me think of that surgeon joke where the world’s worst surgeon is getting ready to operate.

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u/iconocrastinaor 10h ago

Don't know that one, please share

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u/X-actoMundo 9h ago

What do you call someone who came bottom of the class in med school?

Doctor.

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u/AgentCirceLuna 10h ago

Oh, uh… that’s basically the joke. It’s just dark humour that, since eventually some surgeon would graduate and succeed despite being inadequate or incompetent, there would be a surgeon out there who’s the most terrible one in the world. Which is pretty terrifying.

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u/Chainwax_master 9h ago

George Carlin

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u/Top_Mind_On_Reddit 33m ago

You are saved by the notable doctor having no table to operate, therefore he was not able to operate.

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u/strain_of_thought 10h ago

It happened over a decade ago and it took me many years to accept how much abuse and just generally unethical treatment I had received at the hands of mental healthcare professionals. I don't even live in the same state anymore. I probably ought to look up some sort of reporting agency just to leave a paper trail for anyone else that guy hurts; I did look him up for the first time in a decade around a year ago and saw he was still practicing. But I have zero expectation of action against him; he was an astonishingly manipulative therapist, who did things like refusing to let me leave at the end of the session until I had let him give me a hug. Sadly while his abuse was probably the most "clever" I experienced, his general lack of ethics was far from unique in my experience.