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The foolishness of clowns, their vulnerability and willingness to fail, produces 'joy without demands' in hospitalized children, write the Holland Bloorview authors of a new Journal of Medical Humanities paper. Yet clowning is devalued in medicine.
Dr. Elizabeth Young, MD, FRCPC is a general consulting and developmental Paediatrician in the Department of Paediatrics at St. Michael’s Hospital. She is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto. She completed medical school at McMaster University and a Paediatrics residency at Queens University. She worked as a general Paediatrician for two years in Toronto and then went onto then complete her developmental Paediatric sub specialty residency at the University of Toronto.
Christine Provvidenza completed her Bachelor of Physical and Health Education and Master of Science, Exercise Science at the University of Toronto. She is also a registered Kinesiologist. As a Kinesiologist, Christine has been involved in the development and delivery of sport-based injury prevention programs, with a specific focus on concussion education initiatives for athletes, coaches and parents.
