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By Tony Copperfield

EVER questioned what your health practitioner rather thinks approximately you? Or why you can’t get an appointment? Or what that humorous humming noise on your ear is?

Sick Notes – the real-life tale of existence in a doctor’s surgical procedure – can assist with a few answers…

'We desired to thanks for all you probably did for mum over the past 14 years,' stated Mrs Cobham.
Excitedly, I peered into the plastic bag. within used to be one small loaf of sliced bread.
'Er...' I stammered. 'Well, that's lovely.'
She nodded and smiled. 'It was once the least shall we do, doctor,' she said.

Welcome to the unusual global of Tony Copperfield, family members doctor.
He spends his days keeping off apprehensive mums, aged intercourse maniacs and hopeless hypochondriacs.
The remainder of his time is taken up sparring with colleagues, struggling with bureaucrats and banging his head opposed to the brick wall of the NHS.

If you've ever puzzled what your GP is de facto considering - and what's happening backstage at your surgical procedure - ill NOTES is for you.

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While most of us feel confident about whether something is or is not funny, do we find it funny only because we notice our laughter or because of cognitions that we monitor independent of our laughter? Studies of children's humor have demonstrated that jokes or cartoons that pose some moderate level of effort for comprehension are judged to be funnier than those that are either very easily understood or understood only with extreme effort (McGhee, 1976; Zigler, Levine, & Gould, 1966, 1967). It is not clear whether these children (school-aged) were aware of the difficulty they had in understanding the material presented, but this would appear to be a good starting point for studying metacognitive determinants of judgments of funniness.

Psychological Bulletin, 1975,82,87-103. Das, J. , Kirby, J. , & Jarman, R. F. Simultaneous and successive cognitive processes. New York: Academic Press, 1979. , & Devine, J. Humor by violating an existing expectancy. Journal of Psychology, 1981, 108 107-110. , & Kizer, P. Humor and the incongruity hypothesis. Journal ofPsychology, 1975,90, 215-218. Flavell, J. Metacognition and cognitive monitoring: A new arena of cognitive developmental inquiry. American Psychologist, 1979, 34, 906-911. , & August, D.

Research completed in the 1970s by Howard Leventhal and his associates underscores the importance of initiating the study of metacognitive processes in humor. Their data suggest that males and females differ in the information (at least regarding laughter) used to make decisions about funniness. When shown either a slapstick film or cartoons accompanied by a laugh track, both high school (Leventhal & Mace, 1970) and college students (Cupchik & Leventhal, 1974) showed increased laughter, relative to a non-laugh-track condition.

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