A special doctor at Children’s Hospital Colorado eases patients’ anxiety by doing everything from showing the children how to breathe through a mask before anesthesia, to demonstrating how to take medicine from a syringe, to helping them with physical therapy by walking with them at their own pace.
His name is Galaxy, and he’s actually a “dogtor.” The 6-year-old golden retriever, one of the hospital’s all-time favorite employees, stole the show on a recent tour of the National Science Writers Conference 2023.
Around 20 of the nearly 200 journalists who visited the CU Anschutz Medical Campus as part of the Oct. 6-10 event, toured the top Children’s Hospital in the region and learned about some of the aspects that make it so special.
Galaxy, who works…
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