{"id":157164,"date":"2022-12-14T03:48:05","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T03:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/2022-world-cup-brings-joy-to-hospitals-shots-health-news-npr\/"},"modified":"2022-12-14T03:48:05","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T03:48:05","slug":"2022-world-cup-brings-joy-to-hospitals-shots-health-news-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/2022-world-cup-brings-joy-to-hospitals-shots-health-news-npr\/","title":{"rendered":"2022-World-Cup-brings-joy-to-hospitals : Shots – Health News : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hospitals can be lonely places as the days grow cold and long \u2014 especially during the holidays, and especially during a third pandemic winter. But this year cartoonist and physician Grace Farris, who works as a hospitalist in Austin, Texas was surprised and delighted to find her patients and colleagues rallying around a new sort of holiday spirit and connection \u2014 sparked by this month’s World Cup soccer play-offs.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Grace Farris<\/em> is an associate professor of medicine at the University of Texas at Austin’s Dell Medical School. Every latest book is <\/em>Mom Milestones<\/em>. You can find her on Instagram <\/em>@coupdegracefarris<\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Comic editing by Meredith Rizzo and Deborah Franklin\/NPR. <\/em><\/p>\n