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How is it possible to maintain a healthy balance between your personal and academic life during medical school? Quite a challenge! This is a practical, hands-on, experiential book about how to achieve well-being during medical school. Premedical and medical students as well as those in the helping professions will benefit from reading it. You can diagnose yourself and assess how well you are fulfilling your needs in ten lifestyle areas: time management; exercise and physical activity; relaxation, meditation, visualization, and imagery; spirituality; communication skills and social support; cognitive and coping skills; nutrition; substance use; humor; and touch and massage. Following each self-evaluation, you are provided with practical information and easy, engaging, and enjoyable exercise to enhance your health and well-being.
Humor
Humor
Diagnose Yourself
- Do others see you as funny and humorous?
Yes___No___
- Do you appreciate the jokes and humor of others?
Yes___No___
- Can you laugh at yourself?
Yes___No___
One beneficial way to cope with the stress of medical education and for your patients to cope with the stress of their illnesses/hospitalizations is humor and laughter. We can all take ourselves too seriously at times, and a good laugh boosts our spirits as we see our problems from a different perspective or vantage point.
Norman Cousins (1979), previously editor of Saturday Review, was diagnosed with a serious and rare disease. He emphasized the benefits he received from 10 minutes of belly laughter combined with massive doses of vitamin C. By setting up his own treatment program away from the hospital (not ...
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