# Pooh, oh Pooh! You've been practising medicine without a license, haven't you?

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**Created:** [October 18, 2003, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pooh-oh-pooh-youve-been-practising-medicine-without-a-license-havent-you/208258 "2003-10-18T23:46:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pooh-oh-pooh-youve-been-practising-medicine-without-a-license-havent-you/208258/1 "2003-10-18T23:46:52Z")

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Bear enters hospital lobby–_in Japan!_

[http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/10/16/1065917545826.html?from=storyrhs](http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/10/16/1065917545826.html?from=storyrhs)

Maybe he came to jerk Christopher Robin’s appendix?

PAGING DR. POOH!

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**Author:** ![coffeecat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coffeecat/32/3405_2.png) [@coffeecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coffeecat)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pooh-oh-pooh-youve-been-practising-medicine-without-a-license-havent-you/208258/2 "2003-10-18T23:57:29Z")

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Oh bother.

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**Author:** ![Kallessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7993a0/32.png) [@Kallessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kallessa)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2003, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pooh-oh-pooh-youve-been-practising-medicine-without-a-license-havent-you/208258/3 "2003-10-19T01:19:27Z")

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Pooh is not black and not Asiatic. Not only was this bear impersonating a doctor, he was impersonating a beloved literary chacacter!
