If you spend any sort of time working around doctors and nurses you'll find a lot of them have got a pretty dark sense humor.
I briefly dated an EMT and I remember her telling me about some car accident victim who pretty much didn't have a top half anymore, but their Spongebob boxers were on full display that the first responders on the scene proceeded to make jokes about during the cleanup.
I once ran AV for a laproscopic surgeons' symposium. I have never been around a higher concentration of "Dr. Frankenstein" energy in my entire life.
"If you want unobstructed access to the neck of the gallbadder, you can always remove the liver and temporarily reimplant it in the middle of the forehead....that's a joke." I SHOULD FUCKING HOPE SO.
Idk if it's due to lack of empathy so much as a coping mechanism for dealing with dark shit. Some people are just assholes though.
I'm pretty sure these are just jokes.
Although " punative medicine" is a real thing that used to be a lot more popular, giving people IVs of larger sizes than required just because they are a dick for example
Yeah this isn't anything. Like it's not even joking about admitting to killing patients either, it's a joke about how you shouldn't even if they're annoying.