Gallows Humor in Medicine: Medical Professionals Regularly Joke about Their Patients' Problems. Some of These Jokes Are Clearly Wrong, but Are All Jokes Wrong?

Hastings Center Report 41 (5):37 (2011)
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Medical professionals regularly joke about their patients' problems. Some of these jokes are clearly wrong, but are all jokes wrong?

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