An oldie but goody piece of bit of satire from the Salamander Society:

Doctor: You look in remarkably good shape for a 96 year old.

GBH: Isn't it marvelous?

Dr: First let's talk about your medical history.

GBH: Do we have to get into that? As President Packer has said, "Some truth is not very useful."

Dr: OK, then let's talk about what we know. I understand that you have recently been treated for cancer.

GBH: Look, it's in the past. It's behind us.

Dr: That's what we're trying to determine.

GBH: I see no point in rehearsing these blips and flecks of history. It's behind us.

Dr: I've been told you're having trouble walking, and that you use a cane.

GBH: I don't know that I'd say that. I don't know that I emphasize it.

Dr: Then what's that cane for that you're holding?

GBH: Now that's more of a walking stick than anything else. That gets into some pretty deep physiology that we don't know very much about.

Dr: Look, we're not getting very far here. Do you have some specific health issues you want me to address?

GBH: Let's let the regular processes of the law run their course, then we can take a position.

Dr: I have it on good authority that you have a serious infection in one of your legs.

GBH: I prefer to be positive. The negative becomes the stuff of headlines and long broadsides that, in many cases, caricature the facts and distort the truth--at least the whole truth. The tragedy is that this spirit of negativism seems to prevail throughout the country.

Dr: But what about the blood and pus soaking through your pant leg?

GBH: Look, I want to subdue the negative and emphasize the positive.

Dr: Well, if you're not going to tell me what's going on, I can't find anything wrong with you.

GBH: Isn't it marvelous?

Later that day, the church issued the following press release:

President Hinckley has been examined by his physician, who could not find any trace of cancer or indeed any physical ailment at all in our beloved prophet. Clearly he is reaping the benefits of a lifetime of living the Word of Wisdom and is being blessed by the faith and prayers of the membership.