title: Healing with humor. Clowns on call bring hugs and happiness.
abstract: Each year tens of thousands of children visit The Detroit Medical Center's Children's Hospital of Michigan as patients. Hundreds of thousands of orders are processed and even more prescriptions are written. This year rare and different kinds of orders and prescriptions are being written ... orders for Clowns-on-Call and prescriptions for laughter.
authors.affiliation: Child & Family Life Department, Detroit Medical Center's Children's Hospital of Michigan, Detroit, USA.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Dayton
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D006758:Hospital Volunteers; D006776:Hospitals, Pediatric / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D008824:Michigan; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D014925:Wit and Humor as Topic