Books tagged: medical humour

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The Meaning of Larf    by Philip Bradbury
Price: $2.99 USD. 29370 words. Published on January 16, 2010. .

125 luscious pages of amusement for anyone who likes a laugh and some thoughtfulness. Gathered from hundreds of unsolicited emails over eons of monitor-staring pleasure, these tid-bits of nonsense, sense and otherwise gritty, pithy and rather silly jottings of so many scribes, most called Anony Mouse, cannot go unheralded.
Think Before You Swallow    by Noel O'Hare
Price: $2.99 USD. 67000 words. Published on January 4, 2011. .

A seasoned health writer casts his skeptical eye over many of the 'facts' we've been encouraged to believe – from the dangers of cholesterol to the value of supplementary vitamins, from the benefits of exercise to the threat of epidemics. Laced with humour and leavened with fascinating minutiae, this is one of those rare health books that is both informative and entertaining.
A Pain in the Toenails    by Melissa Yuan-Innes
Price: Free! 1840 words. Published by Olo Books on July 15, 2011. .

Ah, the innocence of medical school. This is a story from my third year of clinical clerkship, when I started rotating through the hospital wards. One patient taught me about ulcerative colitis...and a few other things. You can also find this essay in my book, The Most Unfeeling Doctor in the World and Other True Tales from the Emergency Room.
No Air    by Melissa Yi
Price: $1.99 USD. 18410 words. Published by Olo Books on August 7, 2011. .

Dr. Valerie Chia strides into St. Joseph's emergency room expecting the usual Montreal Monday morning chaos. But when the other day doctor goes AWOL and a patients crashes, Val's up the creek, in a handbasket, even before she lets resident Dr. Hope Sze try the emergency airway... Debut episode (half-hour pilot script) of a medical radio drama featuring Dr. Hope Sze.
Code Blues    by Melissa Yi
Price: $5.99 USD. 103120 words. Published by Olo Books on August 15, 2011. .

Dr. Hope Sze rolls into Montreal with three simple goals: 1) survive her family medicine residency, 2) try _pain au chocolat_, 3) go on a date sometime in the next two years. Then she discovers a doctor's body in the locker room. When she tries to uncover his killer, two men are more than willing to help. But the one man with charm to burn, the one man who makes her melt, has zero alibi.
THE WEL-MART WAY    by Kevin Bayless
You set the price! 4250 words. Published on May 6, 2012. .

The Wel-Mart Way is a fictional, humorous account of how one of our nation's largest retailers plans to solve the health care crisis.