{"id":751,"date":"2009-03-27T09:12:39","date_gmt":"2009-03-27T14:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2009\/03\/27\/heart-valve-replacement-cartoon\/"},"modified":"2025-06-07T10:59:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T15:59:53","slug":"heart-valve-replacement-cartoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2009\/03\/27\/heart-valve-replacement-cartoon\/","title":{"rendered":"Pig Valve Replacement Humor&#8230; Thanks Kerrigan!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not a fan of overused cliches. However, if there is one cliche I never get tired of it is, &#8220;Laughter is the best form of medicine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That said, Kerrigan just sent me this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/learning\/pig-valve-replacement\/\">pig valve replacement<\/a> cartoon that got a good chuckle out of me. Without further ado, I hope this injects some <em>laughter medicine<\/em> into your veins:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/Images\/pig-valve-cartoon.jpg\" alt=\"Pig Valve Cartoon\" width=\"375\" height=\"476\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nRelated Links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2007\/09\/14\/heart-valve-humor-a-cardiac-surgeon-and-a-car-mechanic\/\">Joke: A Cardiac Surgeon and A Car Mechanic<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2010\/06\/25\/friday-fun-why-do-boys-need-their-parents\/\">Friday Fun: Why Do Boys Need Their Parents<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2013\/02\/23\/joke-human-body-thumbs-men\/\">Silly: The Human Body and A Man&#8217;s Thumb<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Keep on tickin&#8217; and laughin!!!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-heart-valve-replacement"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41884,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions\/41884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}