7 doctors show how it’s done!

Videos that show doctors or other healthcare professionals handling children without the use of restraint and without pain nor stress are great to watch. A sense of humor and music can also be beneficial during a hospital visit. Just like paying real attention to someone, taking some extra time and adjusting to what a child needs in that moment. 

Here are 7 videos of healthcare professionals that show how it’s done. Enjoy!

1. This paediatrician gives shots while humming a funny tune and blowing bubbles…

2. Dr. Tony Adkins, also known as ‘Dancing Doc’, is a physician assistant at the Children's Hospital of Orange County-California. He believes that laughter is the best medicine. He posts weekly videos of himself and his patients doing a little dance, on his Facebook page. 

3. Jac'Quel travels to the hospital 3 times a week to receive kidney dialysis treatment. During his treatments he entertains himself by challenging his friends and nurses to some Nintendo Wii dancing. How great that he visits a hospital where the healthcare professionals are willing to take the time to do this with him and make his treatment a little bit easier on him! 

4. This Brazilian hospital also uses a sense of humor and music with adults, to make their hours of dialysis treatments somewhat more pleasant. 

5. You could call this doctor a baby whisperer. Dr. Hamilton shows how to calm a crying baby within seconds, using a technique which he calls: ‘The Hold’. Some of the baby’s in this video had just received their vaccinations. 

6. In this video Baruch Krauss, MD, EdM at Boston Children’s Hospital, is suturing the wound on the forehead of a girl. Without pain and without stress. What you do not see is that he gave this girl a specific task to do while he is tending to the wound. She is drawing and coloring something, with the help of her mom. 

7. Dr. Michael Darden shows that you cannot have enough tissues at hand when you’re giving shots to a baby…!

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