An ongoing dialogue on HIV/AIDS, infectious diseases,
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 …