Collected Examples of

Medical Urban Legends

From the files of Dr. John Capps and submssions from viewers like you!

Like a lot of regular urban legends, this one is ofen told with some unpleasant racial undertones, but is so commonly repeated I feel needs mention. A naive young first-time (usually teenage) mother, Miss Jones, brings home her new-born baby girl to show off to her friends. When asked what she named her, the mom says the hospital named the girl for her, telling them the name is (phonetically) "FEE-ma-LEE." To their puzzled stares, she explains that when the baby was brought to her room from the nursery for the first time, she already had her name written on the card on the crib: "Female Jones."