It is when Linda Perret dispenses doses like this: "My HMO insurance plan is a little cheap. Instead of an anesthesia, they just provide you with a flock of numbered sheep."
Or when she describes one of the bizarre home remedies she collected from vintage sources: "To cure a sore throat drink hot rum spiked with gun powder." To which she retorts: "Of course it cures your sore throat -- it shoots your tonsils right off."