How hospitals, providers and parents can work together to minimize stress for young patients.
Nobody like going to the hospital. For children especially, being a patient can be extremely stressful.
“Children and adults process the world differently, and they handle stress differently because of [that]”, says Alexander Rivera, a certified child life specialist at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.
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