Medical lines benefit from the world's most reliable setup: everyone has a body and most people have opinions about it. Anatomy puns land with clinicians and civilians alike, though nurses and med students have heard the obvious ones on every shift — go for the deeper cut.
Best used at a safe distance from actual medical events. Nobody in A&E wants material.
Medical lines have two distinct audiences. Clinicians have heard the obvious anatomy puns from every patient with a pulse, so the deeper vocabulary — the pharmacology jokes, the properly obscure Latin — is what earns a genuine laugh at the hospital social. Civilians, meanwhile, enjoy the obvious ones precisely because they still sound clever. Know which room you are in.
The specialised wards have their own collections: doctor and nurse, dental, pharmacy. Prescribe accordingly.
