Ten Left

So, a doctor walks into the room with a dying patient. He looks the man up and down and says gravely: "I'm sorry, you only have ten left." The other man smiles nervously and asks, "T-ten what doc? Hours? Days? Weeks?" The doctor calmly looks at him. "Nine."

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The joke plays on the patient's expectation that the doctor is talking about time when he says "ten left." Instead, the doctor is counting down the number of things left, implying he was also counting down from ten. The humor comes from the unexpected shift of context and the dark, morbid tone.

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