Understanding the minds of others; protecting the minds of others
Empathy is often confused with sympathy. While sympathy is felling sense of support for someone or something, empathy is understanding how someone else feels or showing this.
Continue readingDeprecation (making a joke of yourself), good or bad?
One of the best things about the human species is that it has developed the ability to laugh; homo sapiens actually have a sense of humour! If the aliens reading this don’t believe it just watch some classic TV and movies like The Big Bang Theory, 3rd Rock From The Sun, and the Men In Black series. Humans make fun of each other and others all while working (the actors were paid). Yet the question, should you laugh at yourself?
Continue readingLaughter? Truly the best medicine?
Should all hospitals hire clowns or at least mandate an hour of a doctor’s working day should truly be just to make jokes and make patients laugh? Research has actually found that humour has an effect on not just the respiratory system (the organs that work together to ensure you can “ha”, but has an effect on the nervous system (the neurol chord that connect the body to the brain), the cardiovascular system (the tubes that carry blood around the body, from and to the heart), and the immune system (the part of your body that goes into high gear when you’re sick).
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