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About the Clown Doktors
They are called Dr. Stracciatella, Dr. Furioso or Dr. Raclette and are experts in intensive laughing medicine. Together with their 33 other colleagues from DIE CLOWN DOKTOREN E.V., they bring joy and variety into everyday clinical life to sick children. By including the little patients in their jokes, they promote the healthy, playful side of the children, strengthen their self-healing powers and thus support medical therapy through the power of humor.
The special thing about it: The clown doctors are all freelance artists who have undergone special, long-term training for their sensitive task. Their humor visits, which are only financed through donations, always take place in close coordination with the medical nursing staff on site. True to the motto "Laughing helps heal", the clown doctors give their little patients a laugh test, transplant clown noses, prescribe soap bubble treatments or chocolate ice cream pizza. By including the little patients in their jokes, they support and promote the healthy, playful side of the children, strengthen their self-healing powers and thus support medical therapy through the power of humor.
In addition to the beneficial effects of laughter and humor, the regularity of the clown doctor visits is particularly important for sick and seriously ill children. Many children eagerly await "their" clown doctors. But they are not the only ones: The humor visits are also an important change for the parents during their stay in the children's clinic, which is often very worrisome.
Since 2009, the beneficial effects of laughter and humor have also benefited older people: the visits by the clown doctors have been extended to facilities for the elderly. The warm welcome is always very touching. Singing, dancing, joking together or simply exchanging ideas about previous experiences repeatedly create indescribable moments for the residents - but also for the staff and the clown doctors themselves.
The association DIE CLOWN DOKTOREN E.V. has been organizing humorous visits to meanwhile 13 children's clinics, two intensive care facilities, twelve senior facilities, two geriatric wards and a children's hospice in the Rhine-Main area, in Central Hesse and in Rhineland-Palatinate since 1994. With more than 2,000 visits, the 33 clown doctors reach over 60,000 sick children and hundreds of seniors every year.
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