Name: TEDx】醫療衛生領域的幽默感｜Gary Edwards｜TEDxBrno (【TEDx】Humor in healthcare | Gary Edwards | TEDxBrno)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T05:43:32.000Z
Duration: 18 min 19 s
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and we will immediately speak only in Spanish.

I imagine that everyone in this room remembers a time

when it was impossible to put those two words,

humor and healthcare is an idea worth sharing.

I'd like to start with my personal experience

I had just started presenting this idea of humor in healthcare

and I was running all over the country like a mad man

I studied at the first accredited clown school in America.

in hospitals, in children's wards, all over the country.

and the first thing I would do is have a consultation with the staff

to get some basic information on the patients that were there,

[the staff] that would help me in my work.

and he was telling me things I needed to know.

And then he said: "Oh, and there is Melissa in room 4."

and she's in the last stages of the disease,

and her bodily functions are shutting down.

So probably, it does not really make sense to visit her."

And I said, "Can I try?" And he said, "Yes, of course."

So I continued my visit to the oncology ward

— there were actually two wards, younger and older children —

I opened the door slightly and asked if I could come in.

I saw Melissa lying in bed, staring blindly at the ceiling;

she had lost all her hair through treatment.

Her mother was sitting next to her, wringing her hands,

So I asked if I could come in and her mother said yes.

Because she did not see, I was forced to use sounds.

— and I never knew what was going to happen —

We decided that we should catch this bird,

and it was Melissa's idea to put it out of the window.

I was racing around the room trying to catch this bird.

This went on and on, and we could not get rid of this bird.

— she was really enjoying this, she was laughing

finally decided that the bird would live under her bed.

and so the bird finally lived under Melissa's bed.

At the end, I picked up my ukulele, and I sang a little song

about the bird that lived under Melissa's bed.

And as the door closed, it opened again immediately,

and her mother was chasing me into the foyer of the hospital