Laughter Is the Best Medicine Blake Lynch ’14, known as “Nurse Blake” online, has almost a million Facebook followers, more than a half million Instagram followers and more than 86,000 YouTube subscribers. “I wanted to develop this community of nurses that can relate to one another and laugh. It’s OK to laugh about our jobs and laugh at ourselves,” Lynch says. To strengthen the sense of community around his following, Nurse Blake has launched his own line of merchandise, including the T-shirt he’s wearing here. Jump to top