A Soviet journalist walks into the hospital
and tells the desk
nurse, “I want to see the eye-ear
doctor.”
“There is no such doctor” she tells him. “Perhaps you would like to

see someone else?”
“No, I need to see an eye-ear doctor,” he
says.
“But there is no such doctor,” she replies. “We have doctors for the

eyes and doctors for the ear, nose and throat, but no eye-ear
doctor.”
No help. He repeats, “I want to see the eye-ear
doctor.”

They go around like this for a few minutes and then the nurse says:

“Comrade, there is no eye-ear doctor, but if there were one, why would

you want to see him?”
“Because,” he replies, “I keep hearing one
thing and seeing
another.”