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 — ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Series premiere tonight at 10:30 on Showtime. Edie Falco makes a welcome return to series television in Showtime’s “Nurse Jackie,” a dark comedy about a medical professional in dire need of an ...

This humor is not your warm, fuzzy Patch Adams and clowns in the childhood cancer ward type of humor. This is Joan Rivers meets death metal meets hydrochloric acid humor. During the treacherous ...

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 ...