Question

A father and a son are in a car. Car crashes. Father dies. Son taken to hospital. Doctor refuses to operate saying "that's my son!". How?

Answer 1

Answer:

The doctor was the boys mother.

Explanation:

This is a very old and classic riddle.

In the riddle there are two people in a car, "father and son". When the car crashes the father dies but his son is taken to the hospital.

Obviously the father is officially dead and out of the picture.

However, there is a doctor who claims the boy, patient, to be be his son.

There is no where written that whether the doctor was a male or female.

The doctor is the patients mother.

This riddle shows that we assume that doctors are men. Because naturally that's what came into everyone's mind when they came across this riddle. However, the doctor was actually the boy's mother.