Gallows Humor in Medicine: Medical Professionals Regularly Joke about Their Patients' Problems. Some of These Jokes Are Clearly Wrong, but Are All Jokes Wrong?

Hastings Center Report 41 (5):37 (2011)
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Medical professionals regularly joke about their patients' problems. Some of these jokes are clearly wrong, but are all jokes wrong?

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When Humor in the Hospital Is No Laughing Matter.Julie M. Aultman - 2009 - Journal of Clinical Ethics 20 (3):228-235.
Our language, ourselves.Anna Barrett - 1994 - Journal of Medical Humanities 15 (1):31-49.

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