Regarding the Oopsie Daisies gowns...”Your approach … is pitch perfect. It’s pretty, it’s fun; and it carries a power all its own.”
August Gold
Teacher, Speaker, Author
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Hospital Gowns: Do Britain’s Hospital Patients Now Feel More Dignified?
I recently read an article titled “Hospital gowns get an overdue makeover”. Britain’s National Health Service initiated a Patient Dignity Campaign and commissioned designer-to-the-stars Ben deLisi to improve upon the traditional hospital gown design. Since the article was written in February 2010, I decided to do a little more research and see what progress Ben has made in the past year. Read more »
Hospital Gowns: Small Things Matter
“In illness, small things matter a great deal, because life has been reduced to the details that would otherwise be overlooked. The world appears again in all its specific ordinariness, and little things mean everything, including the gown you’re wearing and what people see when they look at you.”
Excerpt from Care of the Soul in Medicine by Thomas Moore, p. 105
Pink Ribbon Stuff
My good friend Lori passed away today. She was the third woman from a small company I worked at twenty years ago to die from breast cancer. Read more »
Tagged breast cancer, Hugg, pink ribbons
Hospital gowns without the gape
By JAN NORMAN
THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
Tagged hospital gowns, Molly Risak, Oopsie Daisies, pediatrics
Make Your Mark Campaign Awards A Dream to Empower Sick Children
From Sickness to Superhero –A Dream to Empower Sick Children
Molly Risak, decided two years ago, while facing surgery for a brain tumor, that a positive mental attitude was going to be crucial to her recovery. Now Risak is working to empower sick children with this message by providing them with creative and comfortable alternatives to traditional hospital gowns, in order to help them think of themselves as someone other than a “sick kid.” Read more »
