Monday, 30 March 2009

The Best Medicine

As house officers, my friend Tom and I had a discussion about which was the best medicine. I said laughter, he maintained it was frusemide.


Turns out laughter is quite effective medicine. I suspect the pharmaceutical industry will not be funding comparative trials though, so our previous debate remains unresolved.


I'm not sure how you'd do an RCT on laughter. Blinding would be pretty difficult. Placebo?



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