Pirate Medicine
Welcome to Pirate Medicine, the podcast where we serve you a slice of medicine inside a pop-culture sandwich! In each episode, we review movies and books, then have a debate about the art of medicine drawing on their themes.
Pirate Medicine
1 - Doctor, Doctor, you must be joking!
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Nico Swetenham & Rhys Davies
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Episode 1
Today, we ask - is laughter the best medicine? To answer that question, we’re going to review a film about a doctor who’s also a clown, find out about the doctor who inspired the film, and read a scientific paper about laughter therapy.
Music by Ross Bugden:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnPLbKmYCKQ
Link to laughter therapy paper:
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0219065