title: Gallows humor in medicine.
abstract: Medical professionals regularly joke about their patients' problems. Some of these jokes are clearly wrong, but are all jokes wrong?
authors: Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, USA.
authors: Katie
authors: K
authors: Watson
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D001675:Bioethics; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations / Q000941:ethics*; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations / Q000941:ethics*; D014925:Wit and Humor as Topic / Q000523:psychology*