Funny Bone: Comedy Writing in Medicine

From physician comedians like Ken Jeong and Adam Kay to sitcoms like Scrubs, there’s a long tradition of overlap between the worlds of comedy and medicine.  While medical students and professionals take seriously the gravity of caring for patients, comedy writing allows us to capture the fun, goofy, and humorous sides of medicine as parts of the wide array of emotions and experiences that come with this career. In this episode, we talk with Dr. Fredrick Martyn, a current family medicine resident at Western University in Ontario, Canada and a comedy writer whose work has been published on several humor writing platforms including Points in Case and Gomerblog.  Dr. Martyn shares with us why he loves finding the humor life and starts off this episode by reading his recently published piece “An Email to the Dean from Jesus Christ, Medical Student.” 

Find Dr. Martyn's work on his website fredrickmartyn.weebly.com!