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The Humor Issue
Volume 78, Number 2

Monkey Business
When someone slips on a banana peel, why do we sometimes laugh—and sometimes call the doctor?
by Alice Flaherty

Sick Humor
Medical training can warp your sense of humor—and humor can help you make sense of your medical training.
by Perri Klass

Dead Reckoning
A young Jazz Age intern worries that some improvised words at a deathbed may well prove to be his last.
by Albert Hyman

The Urge to Titter
Keeping a straight face isn’t always all it’s cracked up to be.
by William Ira Bennett

The Etiology and Treatment of Childhood
For decades now, physicians have turned a clinical eye on small fry.
Why, then, does the epidemic persist?
by Jordan W. Smoller

Comic Relief
Harvard Medical School alumni own up to clinical mishaps, slips of the lip,
and other ludicrous moments in their professional lives.

A Laughing Matter
Shared laughter may help build empathy in therapy sessions.

Faint of Heart
What happens when a medical student who faints at the sight of blood undertakes her surgery rotation?
by Elissa Ely

 

Features

True Grit
From impeccable geniuses to scruffy con men, the Boston City Hospital of
old housed a richy eccentric cast of characters whose lessons are not
easily forgotten.
by Pieter Kark

Ties That Bind
The reluctant decision to set aside his scapel for good prompts a surgeon
to reflect on decades of dedication to his art.
by Ken Kenigsberg