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MGH interns give Santa his annual medical workup

Mass. General surgical interns give St. Nick his annual medical workup

Last Sunday morning, Santa Claus was whisked into the emergency room at Massachusetts General Hospital. He arrived with a racing heart, fever, and jaundice, and over the next few days, Santa went downhill faster than the Grinch’s sleigh plunges into Whoville. St. Nick was evaluated by some of the country’s most esteemed oncologists, cardiologists, neurologists, and psychiatrists. Nurses tracked his blood pressure and pulse, radiologists scanned him, and surgeons booked an operating room. But don’t worry, kids, Harvard’s top doctors healed Santa in the nick of time - again.

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While the existence of Santa Claus may be somewhat questionable, there is absolutely no evidence of a doctor with a sense of humor.