Finding More Than a Cure in the Pediatric ER

By Marie Wolf


Movies, Video Games and Specialized Medical Care Take the Sting Out of Emergency Room Visits  


You won’t find clowns or balloons in a pediatric emergency room – no magicians or





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jugglers either. Just a warm, welcoming environment, with walls that are painted in soft pastels and furniture sized just for kids. Here, children can play with toys, read a book or watch TV to tune out the fear of being in a hospital in the first place.


They may come in with an injury or a burning fever or because of an innocent mishap. We hear about mishaps every day. Two-year-old Stephen of Plainedge was rushed to the ER after he shoved a chocolate-covered raisin all the way up his nose. So was Matthew, a Plainview toddler, who munched on the neighbor’s hedges while his mother took him for a walk in the stroller through their neighborhood. And there was Sarah, a preschooler from West Babylon, who fell off her bed and broke her arm. She told her parents that she was "making believe the bed was a trampoline."


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