[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Applied Policy Insight is Applied Policy’s monthly newsletter, published in the interest of sharing both our insights into healthcare policy and a little more about ourselves, as a team and as individuals.
Regular readers know that Insight is also a forum for sharing our favorite jokes.
Insight Joke of the Month for April 2026
Why did the rocket ship go to the doctor?
For its booster shot.
🚀 We extend our congratulations to the crew of Artemis II and the many individuals across NASA, industry, and partner organizations whose work has inspired us all this month. 🌕
Good joke? Bad joke? Humor can subjective, but it can also be good for your health.
Submit your favorite healthcare joke or pun to news@appliedpolicy.com.
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PREVIOUS JOKES OF THE MONTH
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Insight Joke of the Month for March 2026
Why should you never iron a four-leaf clover?
You don’t want to press your luck.
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Insight Joke of the Month for February 2026:
Why can’t you lie to a cardiologist?
They can always spot AFib.
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Insight Joke of the Month for January 2026:
How did the doctor determine the witch had vertigo?
On the basis of dizzy spells
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Insight Joke of the Month for December 2025:
Why was Santa hesitant about having an MRI?
He has Claus-trophobia
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Insight Joke of the Month for November 2025:
When is turkey soup bad for your health?
When you are the turkey
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Insight Joke of the Month for October 2025:
Why didn’t the skeleton go trick or treating?
Because it had no body to go with.
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Insight Joke of the Month for September 2025:
Why do phlebotomist carry red pens?
Because they have to draw blood.
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Insight Joke of the Month for August 2025
Why can you never lie to an X-ray technician?
Because they can see right through you.
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Insight Joke of the Month for July 2025
What medical device is used to measure the pain inflicted by dad jokes?
A “sighs-mograph”
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Insight Joke of the Month for June 2025
Do you remember when we told the joke about the chiropractor?
It was about a weak back…
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Insight Joke of the Month for May 2025
Why do chemists excel at problem solving?
They have solutions.
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Insight Joke of the Month for April 2025:
How did the cat know it was sick?
It wasn’t feline well.
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Insight Joke of the Month for March 2025:
How do we know that leprechauns love our joke of the month contest?
We’ve heard they’re Dublin’ over with laughter.
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Insight Joke of the Month for February 2025:
Why was the dermatologist fired?
For making too many rash decisions.
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Insight Joke of the Month for January 2025:
When does February come before January?
In the dictionary.
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Insight Joke of the Month for December 2024:
How can Santa’s reindeer jump higher than a house?
Houses can’t jump.
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Insight Joke of the Month for November 2024:
Why did the turkey cross the road twice on Thanksgiving?
To prove that he wasn’t chicken.
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Insight Joke of the Month for October 2024:
Why was the pediatrician always annoyed?
Because they had such little patients.
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Insight Joke of the Month for September 2024:
Why don’t ants get sick?
They have anty-bodies.
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Insight Joke of the Month for August 2024:
Why did the microbe cross the microscope?
To get to the other slide.
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Insight Joke of the Month for July 2024:
Why did the pillow go to the doctor?
It was feeling a little stuffed up.
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Insight Joke of the Month for June 2024:
What do boats do when they are sick?
They head to the dock.
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Insight Joke of the Month for May 2024:
What is the best animal to put in charge of your medical records?
A HIPAA-potamus
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Insight Joke of the Month for April 2024:
What kind of doctor fixes websites?
A URL-ologist.
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Insight Joke of the Month for March 2024
Why does the Easter Bunny go to the doctor every year?
For his annual eggs-am
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Insight Joke of the Month for February 2024
What kind of doctor is Dr. Pepper?
A fizzician.
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Insight Joke of the Month for January 2024:
How is 10 +10 the same as 11 + 11?
Because 10+10 is 20 and 11+11 is 22
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Insight Joke of the Month for December 2023:
What did the doctor say to the gingerbread man with the sore knee?
“Have you tried icing that?”
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Insight Joke of the Month for November 2023:
What happened to the ophthalmologist’s jokes over time?
They just got cornea.
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Insight Joke of the Month for October 2023:
When should you take a cookie to your doctor?
When it’s feeling crummy.
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Insight Joke of the Month for September 2023:
Why did the biologist and the physicist break up?
There was no chemistry.
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Insight Joke of the Month for July and August 2023:
Why do ophthalmologists live so long?
They dilate.
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Joke of the Month for June 2023:
Why did the bucket go to the doctor?
It was looking a little pail.
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Joke of the Month for May 2023:
Why did the Dalmatian go to the ophthalmologist?
It was seeing spots.
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Joke of the Month for April 2023:
Why did the cat go to the doctor?
It wasn’t feline well…
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Joke of the Month for March 2023:
What do you get when you cross a four-leaf clover with poison ivy?
A rash of good luck!
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The Joke of the Month for February 2023:
What sort of jokes do orthopedic surgeons like?
Anything humerus…
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The Joke of the Month for January 2023:
How is medicine packaged for astronauts?
In Space Capsules!
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The Joke of the Month for December 2022:
What is Santa Claus’s favorite type of
durable medical equipment?
A candy cane!!
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The Joke of the Month for November 2022:
What kind of key has legs and can’t open doors?
A Tur-key!!
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The Joke of the Month for October 2022:
What’s the difference between a photocopier and a virus?
One makes facsimiles. The other makes sick families.
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The Joke of the Month for September 2022:
Why does the infectious disease unit
have the fastest WiFi at the hospital?
It has all the hot spots!
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The Joke of the Month for August 2022:
Why did the cookie go to the doctor?
It was feeling pretty crumby.
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The Joke of the Month for July 2022:
Why did the doctor ask the nurse to walk past the pill cupboard quietly?
So they wouldn’t wake the sleeping pills.
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The Joke of the Month for June 2022:
What kind of medical condition causes wrinkled clothes?
An iron deficiency.
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The Joke of the Month for May 2022:
What is the medical diagnosis for owning too many dogs?
A Rover-dose.
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The Joke of the Month for April 2022:
Why did the rabbit go to the hospital?
For a hop-eration!
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The Joke of the Month for March 2022:
How did the pig get to the hospital?
In a hambulance, of course!
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