That hospitals are somewhat hostile environments for everyone is evident. When we have to go to one it is because we are not well with what is complicated to feel at ease, to feel comfortable.
Humanize them but above all, humanize them for children, it is a necessity that seems that little by little we are taking ourselves more seriously.
Win the disease with medicine itself but also with the imagination, as a new secret weapon.
How many times have you had a hard time with your children because they had to test them? Yes, you have had a bad time but obviously he or she has had a much worse time.
There are more and more hospital centers that decorate and adapt their children's areas with colors and drawings that are more friendly to their patients, for children who have to spend more or less time in the hospital.
We already talked to you about how in Argentina and thanks to a law, there are clowns as well as doctors to treat the smallest and most misplaced patients, those who feel most vulnerable and do not know how to express it.
Well, it has also been in Argentina where they have decided that magnetic resonances for children are done nothing less than in a spaceship, we do not know if it is “The Millennium Falcon” or the “USSEnterprise” but it is clear that for children who use it, the test that often scares and anguishes many, becomes an intergalactic journey that can tell their friends when they return to school and leave the hospital.
In the Garrahan, the resonance room is now a super spacecraft;) More information: //t.co/EqaSU8U3rb pic.twitter.com/PDacZTr1qN
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It is not easy but it sure is not that complicated and the intention is to lower the number of anesthesia They apply to children. You see that it is not simply to "disguise" the machine, but to create a "story" in which the little patient enters with a face full of surprise and forgetting for a moment that he is in a hospital.
Of superhero doctors
Many of them are, that's undeniable but there are some like Sergio who takes it to the letter and gets his patients to trust him one hundred percent Who wouldn't trust Thor if this were his doctor?
Sergio Gallegos is an oncologist at the General Hospital of Guadalajara in Mexico and receives his patients since 2007 with some "Uniforms" very peculiar The white coat is not for Sergio, he dresses a few days of Santa Claus, others of Batman, Spiderman or Captain America.
The director of the center is completely in favor of Sergio's initiative, that he fight against the disease with all the means at his disposal, from medicine to magic provided by the costumes he uses.
Small gestures, small changes and eagerness to make something more human that makes us feel as vulnerable as disease, such as putting ourselves in the hands of a stranger and trusting that he knows what needs to be done to cure us. If it already costs adults, can you imagine how children should feel? These doctors have imagined it and have taken steps to change it.
