title: Finding your funny bone. Incorporating humour into medical practice.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Many people confuse seriousness with professionalism. Humour enables you to separate who you are from the difficult work you do.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To illustrate ways humour and fun can be incorporated into day to day working life.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  People are more productive, cooperative and flexible when they have fun at work. Becoming a humour consumer of tapes, jokes, TV shows, movies or funny books, strengthens your sense of humour, relieves stress and improves relationships.
authors.affiliation: pcamhill@ozemail.com.au
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yates
mesh_terms: D001315:Australia; D005194:Family Practice / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians'; D014925:Wit and Humor as Topic