Serious question: Is it OK for medical professionals to laugh at themselves or make fun of the profession in public? Some say no. I say it’s not only OK, but humor might be good for the professional — ...

This video is a compilation of funny and lighthearted clips captured in real-life situations. Whether it’s a spontaneous ...

The brutally honest preschooler who comes to visit your patient, the nursing meme someone posted on the coffee machine, a rumbling stomach during a blood pressure check: If you don't notice humor in ...

If you work in health care, you know that a healthy sense of humor is an important way to combat a pressure-filled work environment. A chuckle every now and then can work wonders. Have you thumbed ...

Since I believe laughter is often the best medicine, I didn’t have to look very far to find funny movie scenes that also delivered meaningful medical lessons. Since I am a huge proponent of laughter ...

Source: By NBC Television (eBay front back) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons In Samuel Shem’s seminal 1978 novel about medical internship, The House of God, the protagonist calls patients ...

Mary Roach encouraged the use of humor to break down barriers in medical discourse while promoting her new book “Replaceable ...

While most of us don’t really think about hospitals as funny places, it’s still, for many people, just a place where they work. In fact, in the US, it’s one of the most quickly growing employers. So ...

“Oops” is not what a patient expects from a hospital nurse fixing to administer a pain-relieving treatment. In my case she simply had squeezed an extra gob of ...

They say that laughter is the best medicine, but it could be a good parenting tool too, according to a new study led by researchers from Penn State. In a pilot study, the research team found that most ...

Men might want to ditch the pickup lines and polish their punchlines in their quest to attract women, new research at the University of Kansas suggests. Jeffrey Hall, associate professor of ...