on the subject of passion today is
coincidentally my wedding anniversary to
my ex-husband so I definitely won’t be
talking to you about that what I do want
to share with each and every one of you
is a passion that has consumed me for
the past thirty years it was born of two
incongruent life experiences the first
being my love of theater and clowning
which began really by just visiting my
grandparents every summer they were
vaudevillians
and better yet Lilliputians or little
people my grandmother was a perfectly
proportioned three foot 11 all of her
costumes were custom made her hats her
gloves her shoes fit me perfectly when I
was five I never had a chance
theater was in my blood my formal
education ended in Paris at a movement
theater school where my love of clowning
was realized when I went back to the
United States I met a man they Michael
Christiansen who had started a program
of putting clown doctors into pediatric
hospitals yes that’s me dr. Ginger Snaps
so now comes the second life experience
I am a childhood cancer survivor the
marriage of these two life experiences
forged a path to my passion Healthcare
clowning what is healthcare clowning
we define it as creating joy wonder
laughter and comfort for hospitalized
children and all others who are most in
need when I was first diagnosed everyone
looked at me differently they didn’t see
me they saw my illness they define me by
my illness as clown doctors we treat the
healthy part of the child we empower
children through laughter and play all
of our clown doctors are professional
performers not doctors who work in teams
of two and are intensely trained to work
effectively and safely in the hospital
environment
we’re not therapists but what we do is
absolutely therapeutic when a parent
comes to us and says hey that’s the
first time I’ve seen my kid laughs in a
month all of our efforts are worthwhile
and then there’s the moments that never
leave you one such moment for me was
with a little 7 year old boy who was
about to have his leg amputated he
looked at me with this buddha-like
countenance and asked me if he had to go
through with it
all I could say was they think it’s for
the best but right now we can play
whatever you want he looked at me with
this puckish little grin and he said I
want to jump on the bed and I said ok
not realizing the poignancy of his
request so he started jumping on the bed
and pretty soon we were throwing pillows
at each other and stuffed animals and
laughing hysterically so much so that
his mom and some other medical personnel
came in to see what was going on and of
course our laughter was contagious we
all know who knew what was about to
what began 30 years ago as a pilot
program is now a full-fledged
international profession we just came
back from a conference in Vienna with
over 500 participants from over 50
countries these clown doctors are my
heroes but hey there’s nothing like the
real thing so allow me to introduce my
distinguished colleagues dr. Dibble dr.
tricky and dr. doodle-doo dr. dr. doodle
dude could you get us a volunteer please
thank you we pride ourselves on being on
the forefront of medical technology we
have created a procedure that we’d like
to share with you today that is called
the red nose transplant thank you let’s
give her a hand what is your name
Colleen that’s correct we are going to
check your pulse is that okay doctor
tricky oh it’s a little slow can we have
the cardiac accelerator please thank you
very much oh oh much better much better
okay Colleen have you had a cat scan
before okay well if you’re a little
nervous you can hold my hand I want you
that’s perfect okay now we’re gonna have
your finger up like this Colleen and
we’re gonna check your platelets thank
you doctor doodle ooh okay here we go
all right now you just hold your finger
up like that very nice very nice oh very
good
okay now we’re really almost ready but
we want to sterilize the environment so
here we go
very nice could you pop a couple of
those there we go all right let’s check
her out let’s see if she’s
squeaky clean excellent okay so now
Colleen I want you to sit back relax and
let’s see let’s see oh that’s a runny
nose no we’re not gonna do that
ah that’s a nice looking specimen okay
now this is the critical period where
the nose may begin to reject her let’s
see okay this is it ah another
successful red nose transplant thank you
so much and thank you for listening to my passion healthcare clowning baking
coincidentally my wedding anniversary to
my ex-husband so I definitely won’t be
talking to you about that what I do want
to share with each and every one of you
is a passion that has consumed me for
the past thirty years it was born of two
incongruent life experiences the first
being my love of theater and clowning
which began really by just visiting my
grandparents every summer they were
vaudevillians
and better yet Lilliputians or little
people my grandmother was a perfectly
proportioned three foot 11 all of her
costumes were custom made her hats her
gloves her shoes fit me perfectly when I
was five I never had a chance
theater was in my blood my formal
education ended in Paris at a movement
theater school where my love of clowning
was realized when I went back to the
United States I met a man they Michael
Christiansen who had started a program
of putting clown doctors into pediatric
hospitals yes that’s me dr. Ginger Snaps
so now comes the second life experience
I am a childhood cancer survivor the
marriage of these two life experiences
forged a path to my passion Healthcare
clowning what is healthcare clowning
we define it as creating joy wonder
laughter and comfort for hospitalized
children and all others who are most in
need when I was first diagnosed everyone
looked at me differently they didn’t see
me they saw my illness they define me by
my illness as clown doctors we treat the
healthy part of the child we empower
children through laughter and play all
of our clown doctors are professional
performers not doctors who work in teams
of two and are intensely trained to work
effectively and safely in the hospital
environment
we’re not therapists but what we do is
absolutely therapeutic when a parent
comes to us and says hey that’s the
first time I’ve seen my kid laughs in a
month all of our efforts are worthwhile
and then there’s the moments that never
leave you one such moment for me was
with a little 7 year old boy who was
about to have his leg amputated he
looked at me with this buddha-like
countenance and asked me if he had to go
through with it
all I could say was they think it’s for
the best but right now we can play
whatever you want he looked at me with
this puckish little grin and he said I
want to jump on the bed and I said ok
not realizing the poignancy of his
request so he started jumping on the bed
and pretty soon we were throwing pillows
at each other and stuffed animals and
laughing hysterically so much so that
his mom and some other medical personnel
came in to see what was going on and of
course our laughter was contagious we
all know who knew what was about to
what began 30 years ago as a pilot
program is now a full-fledged
international profession we just came
back from a conference in Vienna with
over 500 participants from over 50
countries these clown doctors are my
heroes but hey there’s nothing like the
real thing so allow me to introduce my
distinguished colleagues dr. Dibble dr.
tricky and dr. doodle-doo dr. dr. doodle
dude could you get us a volunteer please
thank you we pride ourselves on being on
the forefront of medical technology we
have created a procedure that we’d like
to share with you today that is called
the red nose transplant thank you let’s
give her a hand what is your name
Colleen that’s correct we are going to
check your pulse is that okay doctor
tricky oh it’s a little slow can we have
the cardiac accelerator please thank you
very much oh oh much better much better
okay Colleen have you had a cat scan
before okay well if you’re a little
nervous you can hold my hand I want you
that’s perfect okay now we’re gonna have
your finger up like this Colleen and
we’re gonna check your platelets thank
you doctor doodle ooh okay here we go
all right now you just hold your finger
up like that very nice very nice oh very
good
okay now we’re really almost ready but
we want to sterilize the environment so
here we go
very nice could you pop a couple of
those there we go all right let’s check
her out let’s see if she’s
squeaky clean excellent okay so now
Colleen I want you to sit back relax and
let’s see let’s see oh that’s a runny
nose no we’re not gonna do that
ah that’s a nice looking specimen okay
now this is the critical period where
the nose may begin to reject her let’s
see okay this is it ah another
successful red nose transplant thank you
so much and thank you for listening to my passion healthcare clowning baking
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