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Dr. Glaucomflecken on Why We Can All Use a Laugh Right Now

Medicine and the Machine

CHAPTER

Medical Comedy

"I see comedy telling jokes as a way to gain some semblance of control over this situation in which you don't have any control," he says. "Comedy is such a powerful way to do that because you're able to do it on your set." He has been diagnosed with testicular cancer and the other testicle, but made a full recovery after his wife gave him 10 minutes of chest compressions when he went into cardiac arrest.

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