Humor in Medicine

Have you ever heard the phrase, “ Laughter is the best medicine?” Surprisingly, that’s true, so let me help you discover some of the things laughter can do for you. Norman Cousins is generally credited with starting the scientific study of humor some 20 years ago. Anatomy of an Illness tells how watching comical movies helped him recover from an illness that was predicted to be fatal. Norman made it his mission to laugh 100 times a …

…get you laughing more today. Since children get hundreds of laughs everyday it’s only appropriate that we let them make us laugh. A man escaped jail by digging a hole from his jail cell to the outside world. When finally his work was done, he jumps out of the hole in the middle of a preschool playground. “I’m free! I’m free!’ he shouted “SO WHAT,” said a little girl, “I’M FOUR!”