The scary part about this medical humor cartoon is that someone really said it to a patient. It was a joke, of course… but it was entirely true, too.

By the way, feel free to use this cartoon & other GiggleMed copyrighted medical humor cartoons in your presentations. Just be sure to include the source & the (c) GiggleMed.com text.

Lastly, if you’re looking for medical humor gifts, check out the GiggleMed.com gift store: 

March is Colon Cancer Awareness Month. And you know what? Let’s look at that name a little closer… “Colon Cancer Awareness Month”. It’s not very catchy. In fact, it’s a little frightening.

Don’t we want people to actually show up for their colonoscopy screening? Don’t we want them to actually take their colonoscopy prep as directed? (their “Go-Profusely”) Well, let’s rename the month. Check out this colonoscopy comic… much more memorable, but perhaps only slightly less scary – It’s time for the Annual Running of the Bowels. (Please spare us your middle school tendencies… No Poop-lona, Spain jokes, please)

Feel free to use this image in your talks and presentations (as long as you include the attribution to GiggleMed.com). Just right click on the image & choose “Save As…” (PC) or “Save Image As…” (Mac)

Check out these hilarious colonoscopy humor...

With the way reimbursement is going and the trend with lots of physician practices being consumed by local health systems, it’s only a matter of time until some of the remaining outliers find creative ways to keep their practices afloat… like say, this guy… Check out this funny “joint” venture comic.

For you opportunists out there, this might be a good time to open a snack shop next to your practice. Maybe you could work some sort of Medical Marijuana Munchies Combo Deal.

Check out these latest Hospital Hallway Funnies – from our collection of overheard and out of context conversations from our fellow healthcare professionals. Read some of these and you’ll begin to think professional should be in quotes.

We have collected hundreds of such quotes… specifically, quotes heard in the hospital that, without context, could be quite humorous. Here’s a recent sample from @GiggleMed Twitter posts:

What do you expect when your job is all about putting out other peoples’ fires?

As healthcare reimbursement plummets, as malpractice lawyers gain more air time, and as the healthcare industry becomes hyper-regulated, it should come as no surprise that we may need to make our profession a little more interesting and even fun, to get qualified applicants. Medical education, nursing schools, and science classes may need to insert more humor into our education.

Enter Captain Higgins (from TheOatmeal.com)

He’s is the coolest parasite ever… hands down.

OK… Here’s a funny take on pharma marketing with a fake commercial video about a combination drug from “Eli Willy”. Check out the hilarious tag line:

Asplavadin – If you’re not bleeding from somewhere, you should probably take another.

This was sent in by a colleague. Comment here or go to his YouTube Channel and comment there (and tell him to make more videos) :)

If you have some medical humor of your own, send it our way. ( funnystuff [at] gigglemed.com )

This is what you get when someone who is poor at taking histories meets a poor historian. Funnies from the medical record.

Personally, I like the part about the chest pain being in his elbow.

For more medical chart bloopers check out ChartFarts.com. You can also submit Chart Farts® to our collection.

Saw this sign in a hospital hallway, just outside the ER.

Demerol-Free Zone… not to be confused with Free Demerol Zone.

Naturally, I turned around and left.

Medical educators update their materials to mirror the familiar educational videos of childhood for the current student:

• Finding Pneumo
• Blue’s Wheezes
• Dora the Practionora
• Mickey’s Observation Unit
• Curious George and the Cirrhotic Man
• Ten Patients About to Drop – Time Management from Dr. Suess
• Beauty and the Yeast
• Conflict resolution with Bert and Ernie