Well Said: Medical play kits
In this week's podcast, Carolina medical students discuss the importance of medical play kits for young patients.
For a young cancer patient, the tools and medical devices in the UNC Hospitals’ Pediatric Hematology–Oncology Clinic can be terrifying.
But two UNC School of Medicine students are working to provide medical play kits to help the children better understand their surroundings and ease their fears as they’re treated at the clinic.
In this week’s episode, we talk about medical play and its benefits for the young patients with Ashley Thrower and Charlotte Story. The medical students have organized a fundraiser to restock the clinics medical play kit supply.
Learn more about the fundraiser here.
Read a transcript of this episode.
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