“…As far as I observed or participated, humour about patients was never malicious. Instead, such joking concerned uncomfortable, awkward, or extraordinary situations that occurred during some visits (for example, see Robertson 2020). Similarly to other research on humour among medical providers (Rosenberg 1989;Issler 2016;Inêz, José, and Capelas 2018;Dueñas, Kirkness, and Finn 2020), I came to see these moments of humour as a coping mechanism, a way for the providers to collectively process some of the 'dirty' bodily functions they encountered when providing care.…”