Humor during clinical practice: analysis of recorded clinical encounters

KA Phillips, NS Ospina… - The Journal of the …, 2018 - Am Board Family Med
Objective: Little is known about humor's use in clinical encounters, despite its many potential
benefits. We aimed to describe humor during clinical encounters. Design: We analyzed 112 …

Development and validation of the Physician—Patient humor rating scale

KB Haskard Zolnierek, MR Dimatteo… - Journal of health …, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
The purpose of this study was the development of a rating instrument to assess the use of
humor in physician—patient interactions, and to compare humor use as a function of …

Humor in the doctor-patient relationship.

HA Squier - Family Systems Medicine, 1995 - psycnet.apa.org
Although humor is an integral part of human existence, its use in the doctorpatient
relationship has not been studied extensively. Previous research has concluded that …

Humor in the physician-patient encounter

JT Berger, J Coulehan, C Belling - Archives of Internal Medicine, 2004 - jamanetwork.com
Medicine is serious business, but physicians have always tried to balance the heavier
aspects of their work with humor and lightness. Hippocrates, for example, wrote that …

[BOOK][B] Humor and the healing arts: A multimethod analysis of humor use in health care

A Du Pré - 1997 - taylorfrancis.com
Offering a social scientific look at humor's role in medical transactions, this volume is based
on extensive field study in seven medical settings. It includes excerpts from dozens of actual …

Satisfaction and the use of humor by physicians and patients

F Sala, E Krupat, D Roter - Psychology and Health, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
The current study investigated the extent to which various types of humor are associated
with high-and low-satisfaction doctor visits and whether male and female physicians and …

Humor in medicine

RC Wender - Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice, 1996 - primarycare.theclinics.com
Humor is hot. Using humor in health care, one suspects, is as ancient as healing itself, but in
the past 20 years humor has been” discovered.” Spurred on by popular acceptance as well …

[HTML][HTML] Could humor in health care become malpractice?

SJ Schweikart - AMA Journal of Ethics, 2020 - journalofethics.ama-assn.org
Could Humor in Health Care Become Malpractice? | Journal of Ethics | American Medical
Association Skip to main content AMA Journal of Ethics ® Illuminating the Art of Medicine Main …

Use of humour in primary care: different perceptions among patients and physicians

M Granek-Catarivas, S Goldstein-Ferber… - Postgraduate …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Purpose (1) To explore the frequency with which humorous behaviour and statements occur
in family medicine practice in Israel, and (2) to quantitatively assess the correlation between …

Toward optimal health: The experts discuss therapeutic humor

JR Godfrey - Journal of women's health, 2004 - liebertpub.com
Dr. Fry: One of the hurdles to promoting humor as a therapeutic option is a lingering
association that many physicians have with the very successful and effective hospital-based …