NIH recognizes super siblings

Episode # 106
Uploaded: August 8, 2012
Running Time: 1:25

CROWN: From the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, this is CLINICAL CENTER RADIO.

Every year for the past 5 years the Clinical Center has been coordinating a kid’s day, in collaboration with the National Cancer Institute and the Children’s Inn. But the children and teens that come to this event aren’t pediatric patients – they’re patients’ siblings, such as Gabby Axelrod:

AXELROD: The day is just about us. I’m a super sib.

CROWN: Sibling Day started here as a way to help recognize the emotional needs of the siblings of NIH patients and to help them better understand and cope with the care being provided to their brothers and sisters. Clinical Center bone marrow technologist Jamie Hahn says:

HAHN: Now they can see what the doctors were talking about and it really helps them to be less afraid and even less apprehensive when they go into a doctor’s office, which is good. Because we don’t want them scared of doctors! We want them to be excited about science and medicine, and maybe even inspire them a little bit.

CROWN: From America's Clinical Research Hospital, this has been CLINICAL CENTER RADIO. In Bethesda, Maryland, I'm Ellen Crown, at the National Institutes of Health, an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services.

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