"Wit and Humor as Topic" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The faculty of expressing the amusing, clever, or comical or the keen perception and cleverly apt expression of connections between ideas that awaken amusement and pleasure. (From Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed)
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D014925
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| MeSH Number(s) |
K01.517.946
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| 1995 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 1996 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Wit and Humor as Topic" by people in Profiles.
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Reducing anxiety in the pediatric emergency department: a comparative trial. J Emerg Med. 2014 Dec; 47(6):623-31.
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Back to the future: Can conversation analysis be used to judge physicians' malpractice history? Commun Med. 2014; 11(1):27-39.
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A most unusual patient at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Ann Surg. 2011 Dec; 254(6):845-9.
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The YouTube generation: implications for medical professionalism. Perspect Biol Med. 2008; 51(4):517-24.
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Humor in medicine. South Med J. 2003 Dec; 96(12):1257-61.
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Children's medical malapropisms. J Fam Pract. 2002 Nov; 51(11):982.
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The quality of consent. Am J Med. 1996 Mar; 100(3):258-60.
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What is it patients want? Am J Med. 1995 Dec; 99(6):588-9.
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Innocent bystander. Am J Med. 1995 May; 98(5):507-8.
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The war within: 3. Am J Med. 1993 Nov; 95(5):531-3.