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Item #3 (Advanced Level)

Good Dog

A routine Sunday for Luna, the Belgian Shepard that underwent special
training to work with patients in hospitals. Today she came for a physical
therapy session with Shaul. Norman, the Miniature Schnauzer, is also
used to starting the week with Shaul. “This little guy, who’s just four

months old, has already visited both the oncology ward at Soroka Hospital
and the oncology ward at Sha’arey Zedek Hospital. He has a very busy
week, meeting many populations.” As much as a dog wandering around a

hospital is a strange sight, dozens of certified therapy dogs wander
(hospitals) in Israel these days, in service of medicine. “These days we
awaken people’s paralyzed limbs, we bring back sensation in (their)

fingers, legs, (make them) get up from the chair.” The medical system
isn’t having an easy time adjusting to the idea either. An article published
last year by a line of researchers from the Johns Hopkins University in

Baltimore, United States, stated that dog therapy is the most effective
method of helping patients not with medication.

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