Stony Brook University School of Medicine student David Elkin brought MagicAid , a program he founded 10 years ago, to Stony Brook’s Children Hospital.

The program’s mission is to relieve patients from some of their health worries by showing  and teaching them magic.

SB MagicAid Team 

Weekly, or when his rotation schedule permits, David volunteers his time and can be found on the Pediatric units of the hospital, providing magic therapy and putting huge smiles on Stony Brook’s youngest patients.

“Magic can make the impossible to become possible,” said Elkin. “Providing magic therapy to children helps suspend their disbelief, and provides them with hope. Magic can help them believe that they can get through whatever medical challenge they are going through at the time.”

David has enlisted several fellow medical students to follow in his footsteps. MagicAid has taken off, and now there are nearly 50 “magic therapists” working with Stony Brook Children’s Hospital.

Read more: http://sb.cc.stonybrook.edu/news/medical/2017-02-13-med-student-brings-magic-to-patients.php