To Dr. David Goldberg, laughter really is the best medicine.
A Kelowna doctor faced with his own cancer journey is helping others fighting prostate cancer with laughter as medicine. Sydney Morton reports.He began telling jokes in the hospital’s operating theatre to pass the time while the cement hardened to replace a joint, a period during an operation he said no other work can be done.“I was aware that I was at a higher risk for prostate cancer given my family history and as a result, I was making sure I was having my P.S.A.’s tested regularly,” said Dr.
After the first round of his book’s publication in March, he donated some of the proceeds to the KGH Foundation. He’s now published an updated version, with a portion of the proceeds to be donated to Prostate Cancer Foundation Canada. “We use humour as a way of coping with a lot of life’s stressors and the joke book has helped me do that and it’s helped many of my patients,” said Dr. Goldberg.
Right now the book is being sold at Indigo across British Columbia and Mosaic Books in Kelowna as well as at Kelowna General Hospital.Viewed
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