Becker's Healthcare April 8, 2024
Ann Arbor-based Michigan Medicine physicians have been getting assistance with telehealth visits from an unlikely but iconic source: Barbie.
Alecia Daunter, MD, of the health system’s C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, started using the doll from Mattel to help her pediatric rehabilitation patients visualize how they should be moving during virtual appointments.
“The Barbie I use comes with a wheelchair and can bend at almost all of her joints,” Dr. Daunter said in an April 5 news release. “She’s an ideal model to help show my patients how I need them to move, flex, or extend their joints.”
She and a colleague studied the new telehealth approach, comparing visits that employed Barbie versus those that didn’t. Patients in the Barbie-aided encounters...
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