Making Fun of Patients: Medical Students??? Perceptions and Use of Derogatory and Cynical Humor in Clinical Settings
Academic MedicinePublished 20 April 2006
Delese Wear, Julie M. Aultman, Joseph D. Varley, Joseph Zarconi
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Recommendations for addressing the use of derogatory humor directed at patients are offered that include a more critical, open discussion of these attitudes and behaviors with medical students, residents, and attending physicians, and more vigorous attention to faculty development for residents.
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The authors offer recommendations for addressing the use of derogatory humor directed at patients that include a more critical, open discussion of these attitudes and behaviors with medical students, residents, and attending physicians, and more vigorous attention to faculty development for residents.
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