May 9th, 2010

Amusing Medical Cartoons … and Humor in Medicine

Someone pointed out this cartoon to me.

What an eloquent depiction of the interior dialogue of a young doctor as she considers various non-medical careers.

Brilliant!

Which led me to thinking more broadly about humor in medicine, about which I quickly remembered that anyone writing about humor (as opposed to writing humorously) will be instantly unfunny.

Sorry.

So let me be brief, and say that I hung around with a bunch of people in college who made cartoons like these their principal means of communication. And that crude art notwithstanding, there’s a real talent to to it.

And most of these are great.

I wonder what she/he (I assume she?) thinks of ID specialists …

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