Polly may not wear a white coat, but she has excellent bedside manner.
The Labrador Retriever recently visited an 8-year-old cancer patient at Children’s Hospital at Montefiore Einstein (CHAM), who began experiencing tremors after doctors removed their breathing tube and reduced their sedative medications.
“When Polly was present in the bed with this patient, they calmed significantly and their tremors were noticeably less frequent,” Katy Dessick, Polly’s handler and a certified child life specialist, told The Post.
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