It's not uncommon for the authors to use sarcastic orfunny explanations, comments, and examples, which make the book an interestingread, and much less boring than some other tech books.
This allows hospital personnel (usually volunteers) to provide comedy videos, cartoon books and other forms of humor, which precisely match each patient's unique sense of humor.
She glanced at the writing-table heaped with books, opened a volume of the "Contes Drolatiques," made a wry face over the archaic French, and sighed: "What learned things you read!"