A Soviet journalist walks into the hospital and tells the desk nurse, I want to see the eye-ear doctor.

A Soviet journalist walks into the hospital and tells the desk nurse, I want to see the eye-ear doctor. There is no such doctor she tells him. Perhaps you would like to see someone else? No, I need to see an eye-ear doctor, he says. But there is no such doctor, she replies. We have doctors for the eyes and doctors for the ear, nose and throat, but no eye-ear doctor. No help. He repeats, I want to see the eye-ear doctor. They go around like this for a few minutes and then the nurse says: Comrade, there is no eye-ear doctor, but if there were one, why would you want to see him? Because, he replies, I keep hearing one thing and seeing another.