{"id":923,"date":"2010-05-09T21:33:49","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T01:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/?p=923"},"modified":"2015-06-04T15:25:17","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T19:25:17","slug":"amusing-medical-cartoons-and-humor-in-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/amusing-medical-cartoons-and-humor-in-medicine\/2010\/05\/09\/","title":{"rendered":"Amusing Medical Cartoons &#8230; and Humor in Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2010\/05\/options11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-3726\" title=\"options\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2010\/05\/options11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"334\" height=\"330\" \/><\/a>Someone pointed out <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2010\/05\/options2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">this cartoon<\/a> to me.<\/p>\n<p>What an eloquent depiction of the interior dialogue of a young doctor as she considers various non-medical careers.<\/p>\n<p>Brilliant!<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry.<\/p>\n<p>So let me be brief, and say that I hung around with a <a href=\"http:\/\/harvardlampoon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">bunch of people in college<\/a> who made cartoons like these their principal means of communication. And that crude art notwithstanding, there&#8217;s a real talent to to it.<\/p>\n<p>And most <a href=\"http:\/\/doccartoon.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">of these<\/a> are great.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder what she\/he (I assume she?) thinks of ID specialists &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[594],"class_list":["post-923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care","tag-medical-cartoons"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}