carnival du ospidal

Carnival du Ospidal is something hard to describe as far as emotions. A banch of us, doctor clowns, during the morning of Mardi' Gras go around the Hospital of our city in all the divions singing and trying to make people smile while they suffer. It's incredible the emotions you feel looking into the eyes of sick and often old people which smile and cry at the same time, and say thank you because for them your presence has simply changed their mood for that day. It was impressive also how the mood of most doctors and nurses changed, and even if nobody was healed suddenly, the atmosphere was certainly different, much more proper for a place where you are supposed to feel better and at the end recover from your illnesses. Instead, hospital are quite sad by themselves for they architecture and colors, and this is a paradox relating to their function. Sometimes more than medicines, nice words and smiles help a lot to alleviate pain.
And this might be real.

http://www.patchadams.org/hospital_project/