Humor is More than a Bodily Fluid

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Put some therapeutic comedy into your daily routine--study up with this slideshow of medical humor highlights from around the web.

In Hippocrates’ time, humor referred to bodily fluid that corresponded to 1 of the traditional 4 human temperaments. Now the New Age humor-laughter is widely recognized as a highly effective therapeutic intervention.

Check out this slideshow for humor highlights from around the Web and put comedy into your routine with medicine that’s good for patients and physicians alike.

References:

1. It Must Be Right, It’s in the Chart

2. Newfangled Dietary Guidelines

3. Five Signs an HMO is Cutting Costs

4. An Rx for More Cuts

5. Patients’ Takes on Modern Medicine

6. Wanted: Experienced Translator

7. On Blood Pressure’s Many Ups and Downs

8. Playing the Hand You’re Dealt

9. More Chart Bloopers: Revisionist Histories

10. You Do the Math

 


 

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