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 — ...

SEATTLE — It's round two for St. Dennis Medical, the mockumentaries serious about an Oregon hospital where doctors and nurses ...

BANGOR, MaineBANGOR, Maine — A state lawmaker is taking exception to the macabre humor that Maine’s chief medical examiner used in an old job posting. The 2017 posting for a deputy medical examiner ...

Cracking jokes in the office might seem like a shortcut to likability or leadership. But new research shows that humor at work is a gamble, and the costs of a flop are often greater than the rewards ...

If you work in health care, you know that a healthy sense of humor is an important way to combat a pressure-filled work environment. A chuckle every now and then can work wonders. Have you thumbed ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...