SCIENCE said:

btm said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

From Next Door:

“Three surgeons were discussing who makes the best patient to operate on.

The first surgeon said:
- Electricians are the best. Everything inside them is colour-coded.

The second surgeon said:
- No, I think librarians are. Everything inside them is in alphabetical order.

The third surgeon shut them both up when he said:
- You’re both wrong. Politicians are the easiest to operate on.
There’s no guts,
no heart,
no brains
and no spine.

Plus, the head and the butt are interchangeable.”

I heard that (a long time ago) as “Americans are easiest to operate on: they’ve only got two working parts, a mouth and an arsehole, and they’re interchangeable.

that’s the key to a better joke i’n‘it, it’s actually customised to the relevant objects such that they can’t simply be switched freely to fit like a variable

OK, so this version is very specific, from the times of Bush the younger:

Three surgeons are discussing their ability to get people back in working order after a severe accident.

Surgeon 1:
A young man had his arm removed by a shark. I recovered the arm, put it back in place, and two years later he won Wimbledon.

Surgeon 2:
That’s nothing. I had a young man who lost both his legs in a car accident. I fixed those legs back in place, and two years later he won the Olympics marathon.

Surgeon 3 (an American):
You guys are just amateurs. I had a young man who had ridden a horse in front of an express train.

All I had to work with was a cowboy’s hat and a horse’s arsehole.

But I put that young man back together.
.
.
.

And 2 years later he was president of the USA.