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Healing Beyond Medicine - Hospital Therapy Dogs

Meet the therapy dogs and their handlers making a difference in the lives of patients.

Aired 03/28/2017 | Rating NR

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Healing Beyond Medicine - Hospital Therapy Dogs

Clip: Season 23 Episode 2 | 5m 6sVideo has Closed Captions

Meet the therapy dogs and their handlers making a difference in the lives of patients.

Meet the therapy dogs and their handlers making a difference in the lives of patients and staff at Sutter Health. And UC Davis Health is part of a nationwide study providing concrete evidence that a therapy dog’s presence can be an excellent form of medicine.

Aired 03/28/2017 | Rating NR

ViewFinder is a local public television program presented by KVIE

Program sponsored by UC Davis Health.

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