Prescription Humor

Author : Bruce Abrahams
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1475958641
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prescription for Laughter written by Bruce Abrahams and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-11-29 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You dont feel well, so you call your doctor and get put on hold. The first available appointment is in three weeks. They ask about insurance. You tell them, HMO. It is now four weeks. You quickly say, PPO. Its back to three weeks. You plead and then yell. They say next week, angrily. You are now afraid they will mark your file and give you expired drugs made for rabid cows. You mention lawsuit. Theyll squeeze you in tomorrow. You arrive fifteen minutes early, wait three hours, and see the doctor for two minutes. The prescription drug you get keeps you in the bathroom. Your insurance refuses to pay. Collectors call. You now have high blood pressure, so you call your doctor. Youre put on hold. The first available appointment is in three weeks. Hassles like these are inherent in the idiocy, incompetence, and illogical nature of Americas health-care system. Author Bruce Abrahams is not a doctor; instead, hes a person with so many medical conditions that his medical alert bracelet simply states, Never mind. As a perennial patient, Abrahams shares embarrassing anecdotes and provides valuable tips in dealing with health-care difficulties for both healthy and health-challenged individuals. While carefully dissecting common difficulties using humor, Abrahams explores how to take charge of your health care. Prescription for Laughter offers practical advice from a patients perspective that will keep you laughing as you successfully navigate a complicated health-care system.

Author : Bonnie Daly
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781507587935
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prescription for Laughter written by Bonnie Daly and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-01-22 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given that some people firmly believe laughter's the best medicine, Prescription for Laughter is designed to tickle your funny bone and help you focus on the funnier side of life while you recuperate. Side effects may include: Giggling, chuckling, grinning like an idiot, and feeling much, much better far sooner than expected.

Author : Kathy Keaton
Publisher : Piccolo the Clown
ISBN 13 : 9780999821107
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prescription Humor written by Kathy Keaton and published by Piccolo the Clown. This book was released on 2018-01-26 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of real-life stories demonstrate how humor and personal interactions delivered with sensitivity can change the environment in even the most difficult situations. It's not about the clown, but about changing the focus from suffering to relief and helping others step out of their stress by offering moments of laughter and joy.

Author : Laurence J. Peter
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 9780345353337
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Laughter Prescription written by Laurence J. Peter and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1987-10 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Candace Lafleur
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781499595710
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prescription for Disaster written by Candace Lafleur and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-05-21 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book about the hilarious side of being ridiculously diseased - laughing through life and encouraging others to do the same. This is not a book about a disease itself, nor does it have any 'woe is me' or forced epiphanies on the meaning of life and health. It's a book about sobbing student nurses wielding sharp needles, falling hospital elevators, having to be surgically removed from your own sweater for an X-ray and support group brawls. About getting my whole family pulled off into a cement bunker at British customs for being more radioactive than a truck full of Russian nails. It's about sneaking nachos into the hospital at seven in the morning and making sweet, sweet love to the back of a parked taxi while having a stroke. This is a book about laughing and joyfully embracing the bizarre and the truly funny side of being ridiculously, incurably diseased. So sit back, take a hit off your oxygen tank and get ready to laugh at the funny side of falling apart. At the very least you'll never look at a bed pan or an IV pole the same way again.

Author : Earl H Soukup
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780970600745
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 2nd Aid Prescription: Humor written by Earl H Soukup and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of ironic and silly anecdotes dating way back to the days of "Kilroy was Here, " a phrase that showed up in many towns and villages throughout the world, written by American soldiers during those war years after they had liberated those areas. Earl Soukup wants the world to enjoy, laugh, and, sometimes, remember. He believes there are a lot of guys out there that will remember some of these stories and a lot of guys out there who will still laugh like he does when he hears them.

Author : Enid A. Schwartz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781578011315
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Humor in Healthcare written by Enid A. Schwartz and published by . This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mervyn J. Huston
Publisher : Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science, University of Alberta
ISBN 13 : 9780888648853
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prescription for Humour written by Mervyn J. Huston and published by Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science, University of Alberta. This book was released on 1989 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Salvatore Attardo
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317551168
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Language and Humor written by Salvatore Attardo and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Language and Humor presents the first ever comprehensive, in-depth treatment of all the sub-fields of the linguistics of humor, broadly conceived as the intersection of the study of language and humor. The reader will find a thorough historical, terminological, and theoretical introduction to the field, as well as detailed treatments of the various approaches to language and humor. Deliberately comprehensive and wide-ranging, the handbook includes chapter-long treatments on the traditional topics covered by language and humor (e.g., teasing, laughter, irony, psycholinguistics, discourse analysis, the major linguistic theories of humor, translation) but also cutting-edge treatments of internet humor, cognitive linguistics, relevance theoretic, and corpus-assisted models of language and humor. Some chapters, such as the variationist sociolinguistcs, stylistics, and politeness are the first-ever syntheses of that particular subfield. Clusters of related chapters, such as conversation analysis, discourse analysis and corpus-assisted analysis allow multiple perspectives on complex trans-disciplinary phenomena. This handbook is an indispensable reference work for all researchers interested in the interplay of language and humor, within linguistics, broadly conceived, but also in neighboring disciplines such as literary studies, psychology, sociology, anthropology, etc. The authors are among the most distinguished scholars in their fields.

Author : Paul E Mcghee
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317839935
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Humor and Children's Development written by Paul E Mcghee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the first book that is geared toward practical applications of humor with children. Health care professionals, counselors, social workers, students, and parents will find this to be a fascinating, instructive volume that illustrates how to effectively incorporate humor into children’s lives to produce enormously positive results. With a strong “how to” focus, this enlightening volume addresses the use of humor in the classroom--to promote learning and to foster higher levels of creative thinking. Experts who are on the cutting edge of humor and its benefits for children examine the importance of humor in fostering social and emotional development and in adapting to stressful situations. And for the scholarly reader, Humor and Children’s Development documents the major research trends focusing on humor and its development. This excellent resource--certain to spark further debate and research--offers an unrivaled opportunity to further understand children’s behavior and development. Humor and Children’s Development was featured in the February 1990 issue of Working Mother magazine in article titled “Let Laughter Ring!” by Eva Conrad. The chapter entitled “Humor in Children’s Literature” by Janice Alberghene was one of the finalists for the Children’s Literature Association’s Literary Criticism Award for the best critical article of 1988 on the subject of children’s literature.