Procedure room for kids improves provider productivity, frees operating rooms.
Screaming, kicking children can turn what should be a five-minute outpatient procedure into a long ordeal for both the physician and the child's parents. The staff at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center has come up with a solution that has calmed the nerves of young patients and the doctors who treat them.
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