The nurse brought a lunch tray to Norman Cousins, who was in a hospital "laughing his way to wellness." The nurse also brought Mr. Cousins one of those glasses used for urine specimens, saying that when convenient he should put a specimen in the glass, that she´d pick it up when she came back to pick up the tray. Mr. Cousins, seeing some apple juice on the tray, put two and two together, and poured the juice in the specimen glass. The nurse came back. She picked up the specimen, held it up to the light, said, "Mr. Cousins, this looks a little off, the color doesn´t seem quite right, are you feeling okay?" Mr. Cousins reached out his hand for the glass and said, "Here, let me look."
After looking at it, he said, "Okay, I´ll run it through again," then drank it. The nurse fainted.
