California Hospital Gives Children Miniature Cars to Drive Themselves to Surgery

A hospital has come up with an innovative way to ease young patients who are anxious before surgery: giving them miniature cars to drive to the operating room! Staff at Doctors Medical Center in Modesto, California, recently scored a miniature pink Volkswagen Beetle and a black Mercedes for their young patients heading into surgery — and now they can see the kids’ “stress and anxiety” disappear when the children get behind the wheels.
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