Occupational folklore, one of the areas of folklore discipline, focuses on all the meaningful cultural formations in the work place created by the people performing the same occupation. A wide range of materials like jokes, beliefs, clothes, morals, humor and rituals created in occupational context, are handled in occupational folklore studies. One of the subjects of occupational folklore is pranks. Occupational folklore is one of the less studied folklore fields, and medical professionals are also one of the least studied groups in occupational folklore. Physicians, nurses, paramedics and the others whose professions are related medicine compose the group defined as medical professionals. In point of their hierarchical position and number in the medical professional group, physicians have a certain place and rich folklore. We will investigate the occupational pranks that are performed by Turkish physicians. Although the primary purpose is considered as entertainment, it is observed that pranks are played on people with many purposes. One of the qualities that draws attention is that they are played more during the change of situation or status than in ordinary times. In this way, pranks have the property of rite of passage. Pranks have two dimensions, the performance of prank itself and the narration of the prank. We will focus on the meaning of these jokes which highlight the brutality of humour, the functions of humor especially forming group consciousness and raising it, the performance of prank narration by narrating the pranks, explaining what these jokes are formed of and their meaning for both the surgical branches and physicians in other field.