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Running Head: ROLE OF HUMOR IN HEALING Role of Humor in Healing Matthew Kelly Red River College Is humor beneficial to the process of healing and the health care profession? Within the community of medicine as a profession, this has been a well-debated question for many decades. Several different authors have shown that humor has made a direct positive impact on a number of different physiological aspects in people. In 2002, Martin suggested that laughter could increase immunity, improve respiration and decrease stress (p.216). The use of humor in healing can also have positive psychological outcomes in people. In 2002, Rosner wrote that one of his patients reported that by having ten minutes of laughter during the day would allow him to have a pain free sleep at night (p.435). Furthermore, it has been documented that humor can improve communication between people, thus building better relationships, which allows for a better patient-professional relationship....

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