A healthcare marketing firm interviewing a medical humor blog? What could go wrong? Actually, nothing… it might hold some of the keys for healthcare reform… or not. Check it out.

You’ll laugh… you’ll cry… it’s better than Cats.

Click on the link: GiggleMed Interview with Talstone Marketing

Or click on the screenshot graphic:

If you happen to be looking for a marketing team for your practice, your institution, your healthcare organization, or your health-related business, I really recommend you look into the Talstone Group. They’re completely awesome… if you’re looking for anything from strategic planning to branding to patient education to target market research and analysis, then BOOYAH… Talstone Group (I’m not sure how the marketing-types will like my “BOOYAH”, but they’re the real deal.)

By the way, they didn’t ask me to endorse their group at all… Well, come to think of it… maybe their marketing is so powerful, they took control of my mind and actually made me want to say something good about them…

Here’s the link to the interview again: GiggleMed Interview with Talstone Marketing

And, here are some links to their stuff:

• Talstone Group Home
• Talstone Group Blog – good stuff
• Follow Tim Smith on Twitter
• Follow DJ Smith on Twitter
• GiggleMed Interview with Talstone

StumbleUpon is a social bookmarking tool that can be a lot of fun. You can install a “stumble” button into the menu of your internet browser. Whenever you click, you will be sent to a web site that either fits the categories you pre-selected as topics you are interested in, or you will be sent to a web site that your friends have flagged as interesting.

GiggleMed is on StumbleUpon. And as we go through sites that we find funny or weird, we flag them. (I give it a “thumbs up.”) You can choose to “stumble” through the sites GiggleMed.com has given a thumbs up or you can go to GiggleMed’s StumbleUpon page and see which sites they are.

Also, if you happen to like one of the posts on this blog, go ahead and give it a thumbs up. You can also review it and post comments for other “stumblers”.

If you have any sites you think we should comment on or stumble, let us know. And if you join StumbleUpon, then tag GiggleMed as a friend.

Although many of you discovered GiggleMed through our first Squidoo lens, some still have no idea what Squidoo is all about. Similar to a blog and similar to a regular website – but it is neither. Anyone can start a Squidoo site (called a “lens”). It is free and you can even make money or have all proceeds go to charity.

We’ve begun several Squidoo lenses, the most recent one being our Chart Farts® Squidoo “lens” to add to all of the funny stuff GiggleMed.com already provides.

If you have a Squidoo lens already, then tag us as a friend (lensmaster name Dun_Tzu) and post your lens link in the comments below. Help GiggleMed make medicine fun again… Start a health care humor lens today.

Laugh Your Gluteus Off?
Doctors and Nurses Write the Darnest Things

Chart Farts® are Medical Bloopers from Actual Hospital Charts

We all need a break from the stresses of work in the health care industry or the difficulties in facing serious illness as a patient or family member. Here’s a free service that provides unique Chart Farts® directly to your email – once every two weeks. Sign up for You’ve Got Chart Farts®! today. They’ll all be left wondering why you are smiling. Tell ‘em that it’s not gas. Tell ‘em that (: medicine is fun again :) ™.

Here’s a small sample:

• “We will watch her diarrhea closely”… (Whatever floats your boat, Doc.)
• “He denies any rectal breeding”… (How in the world did they ask about that?)
• On discharge instructions: “Drink plenty of urine”… (More proof that hospital food should be avoided at all costs.)
• Indication for flex sig – “blood when whipping himself”… (If you bleed when you do that, then don’t do that.)
• Order “Please feed patient only when awake.”… (I’m glad that that’s clarified.)

We have thousands…
Get about 6-to-10 Chart Farts® in one email every two weeks:

• “The patient will remain hospitalized until the day of discharge”… (A lifetime of schooling to get a knack for the obvious.)
• “He had surgery for an unbiblical hernia”… (Prophesied in the scrolls of old.)
• “Seashore disorder”… (That would be “seizure”. I’m sure you learned about seizures in nursing school.)
• and much more…

Sign up now! When you sign up for “You’ve Got Chart Farts®” – you will instantly receive a confirmation email. Follow the instructions in that email.

Enter Your First Name And Email Address Below Name: Email: SECURE & CONFIDENTIAL Your email address will never be distributed, rented, traded or sold. Your confidentiality is guaranteed. You may cancel at anytime, but only if you’re a total stiff.

Get ready to laugh your glutei off…

Medical humor has a new face. GiggleMed.com has not only changed it’s look, but also the many ways to reach you. The main site is now in blog format, so you can get all of your favorite health care humor, nursing jokes, and doctor funnies in many different ways…

Because of the blog format, you can subscribe to the RSS feeds to bring the laughter directly to you. Just click on the RSS button in the upper left, on top of the side bar. You can pick up the latest posts in your favorite reader or even on your home page.

The blog format also gives you better organization and an easier time navigating to your favorite content. Browse by link title in the menu bar across the top. Or choose the category you want in the left side bar. Or even use the tag cloud to choose posts by keyword.

There’s also a ton of GiggleMed original medical humor available in social media formats, such as Ning, Twitter, StumbleUpon, Digg, and Squidoo.

You can still get all of your favorite health care humor gifts for doctors, nurses, EMS personnel, pharmacists, secretaries, transcriptionists, technicians, administrators, pharmaceutical reps, residents, interns, and students – all available at the GiggleMed Medical Humor Store.

There are lots of hilarious videos and even songs coming soon – all within the health care theme.

And of course, there’s GiggleMed’s most popular material – medical malapropisms – Chart Farts®. These are medical bloopers either said aloud or written in hospital/office charts. We have thousands of originals and you can get them in multiple formats – via Twitter, on Squidoo, in the blog posts, or directly to your email.

Please feel free to add to our funny medical lists and to add captions to our humorous pictures and imaging. Just post a comment in the comments section below each post.