The Best of Medical Humor
Author: Howard J. Bennett
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Available in the US, Canada, Latin America, and South East Asia (except Japan) only. Not distributed by LWW in Europe.
Lanterna Rally
eBook PDF Download Digital Library
Medical Humor
Author: Thomas F Shubnell Ph D
Publisher: Thomas F. Shubnell
Published: 2008-09-24
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 1440415749
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Laughter is an orgasm triggered by the intercourse of sense and nonsense. Pain killers are released during a deep laugh and stress hormones are decreased. A good laugh is truly good for the heart, soul, and brain. Read over three hundred pages of great medical humor, jokes, anecdotes, quips, and have a good laugh.
Physician Humor Thyself
Take Two Aspirin. . .and Call Me in Hawaii
Author: David McLaughlan
Publisher: Barbour Publishing
Published: 2011-07-01
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 1607426188
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The doctor/patient relationship offers endless opportunities for laughter—and this collection of medical humor is sure to please anyone who’s still breathing! Scores of jokes and humorous stories, all relating to doctors, hospitals, medicines, diet, and exercise, are categorized into chapters accompanied by light, inspirational introductions. Maybe you’ll see someone you know—even yourself—in this hilarious collection of medical mirth. It’s available in plenty of time for the upcoming election season and its stressful health care debate!
Humor and the Healing Arts
Author: Athena du Pré
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1997-11
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1135684413
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Offering a social scientific look at humor's role in medical transactions, this volume is based on extensive field study in seven medical settings. It includes excerpts from dozens of actual conversations between patients and caregivers. Analysis of these episodes reveals that humor is a practical tool used to meet many medical objectives. It is used by patients to good-naturedly complain and to campaign for more personal attention, and by caregivers to get attention, make amends, insist on unpleasant routines, and establish rapport. Examining humor from many angles, the book begins with a phenomenological analysis of the essence of funny. This section describes what makes some things funny but not others, and how to distinguish between potentially funny and unfunny episodes in medical situations. From an ethnographic perspective, joking around is shown to be a persuasive element of medical culture. Examples illustrate how patients and caregivers use humor to negotiate the dialectics between helping and hurting, and individuality and compliance. Additionally, a close-up look at three medical transactions shows how humor is used to help a physical therapy patient overcome fear and queasiness, reduce the embarrassment of a mammography, and defuse a potential conflict between a student aide and a young patient. A final section examines techniques for initiating conversational humor. In sum, this volume provides an intimate and realistic look at medical conversations as they are conducted every day. It serves as a valuable complement to health communication texts and offers information of interest to health communication scholars, healthcare practitioners, and anyone interested in the effects and techniques of conversational humor. Richly grounded in naturally occurring data, the book can be understood and used effectively by both scholars and practitioners.
The Best of Wits End
Author: Harold J. Ellner M.D.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2008-11-11
Total Pages: 457
ISBN-13: 1465324909
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Who knew doctors could be flat-out funny? In fact, who knew they were so smart? For several decades, the last page of Diversion, the leisure magazine for physicians, held a monthly contest for doctors. Their best is offered in this volume. Could Julius Caesar have been an orthopedist (I came, I saw (ed), I conquered”)? Would our litigious society cause MDs to experience flashes of barristopratfallophilia? When utilization review comes to Washington, one physician envisions government posts such as Joint Sheaves of Chaff. Might a sports team be known as The Heimlichs (they never choke under pressure), or The Sphincters (Nothing gets by them, and they have the best tight end in the business.) Another posits that a GI series is a military baseball competition. And somewhere in this great country there is – or certainly should be – a podiatrist named Mehta Tarsal. The surface has just been abraded.
Humor and the Health Professions
Author: Vera M. Robinson
Publisher: Slack
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Extensive coverage of humor in interpersonal relationships, patient education and the work environment greatly enhance the value of this book to all health care professionals. Humor and the Health Professions introduces the benefits of humor not only as a healing tool for the patient, but as a stress management tool for the health professional as well.
Medical Jokes & Humour
Author: CLIFFORD SAWHNEY
Publisher: V&S Publishers
Published: 2012-11-15
Total Pages: 169
ISBN-13: 9350572737
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →While many Indian joke books are jokes themselves, this book avoids the pitfalls by its professional approach towards compilation, rewriting and editing. The book comprises the world's best adult medical jokes, quips, quotes and humour. Bold and bawdy lines that don't make it between the covers of joke books in India make an appearance here. Unlike many joke books that are a start-to-finish affair without categorisation, this book is divided into 21 chapters that facilitate easy reading. The chapters include: Nurses, Surgeons, Gynaecologists, Sex Therapists, Viagra, AIDS, Veterinarians, Optometrists, Limericks, Wisecracks and a Medical Glossary, amongst others. This book is not meant for those whose sensibilities are easily hurt or people with an ill-developed sense of humour. But for those who love non-vegetarian fare of medical humour, this book is just what the doctor prescribed! #v&spublishers
11 Out of 10
Author: Freida McFadden
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2015-09-30
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781517492489
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"What is your pain level on a scale of 1 to 10, where zero would be no pain, and 10 would be if you had an attack of kidney stones while in active labor, and while all that was going on, you were set on fire. Starting with your genitals. And then you were disemboweled, and the bowels that were removed were then also set on fire. And then while you were running around in active labor, passing a kidney stone, on fire with your bowels also on fire, you accidentally stepped on a Lego with your bare foot. And that Lego was also on fire." "It's an 11." Medicine can be funny. It can be sad, painful, inspirational, but also sometimes funny. "11 out of 10" is a collection of humorous medical stories from practitioners in all fields, ranging from physicians to nurses to EMTs to medical students. Some are totally true, some are exaggerated, and some are mostly fiction. But every single one of them aims to put a smile on your face. All profits from this book will be donated to Deworm the World Initiative, a charity that aims to treat parasitic infections in children in developing nations.
Strange Bedfellows
Author: Ina Park
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Published: 2021-02-02
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1250206650
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Joyful and funny . . . Park uses science, compassion, humor, diverse stories and examples of her own shame-free living to take the stigma out of these infections." —The New York Times With curiosity and wit, Strange Bedfellows rips back the bedsheets to expose what really happens when STDs enter the sack. Sexually transmitted diseases have been hidden players in our lives for the whole of human history, with roles in everything from World War II to the growth of the Internet to The Bachelor. But despite their prominence, STDs have been shrouded in mystery and taboo for centuries, which begs the question: why do we know so little about them? Enter Ina Park, MD, who has been pushing boundaries to empower and inform others about sexual health for decades. With Strange Bedfellows, she ventures far beyond the bedroom to examine the hidden role and influence of these widely misunderstood infections and share their untold stories. Covering everything from AIDS to Zika, Park explores STDs on the cellular, individual, and population-level. She blends science and storytelling with historical tales, real life sexual escapades, and interviews with leading scientists—weaving in a healthy dose of hilarity along the way. The truth is, most of us are sexually active, yet we’re often unaware of the universe of microscopic bedfellows inside our pants. Park aims to change this by bringing knowledge to the masses in an accessible, no-nonsense, humorous way—helping readers understand the broad impact STDs have on our lives, while at the same time erasing the unfair stigmas attached to them. A departure from the cone of awkward silence and shame that so often surrounds sexual health, Strange Bedfellows is the straight-shooting book about the consequences of sex that all curious readers have been looking for.
