With Tales and Folly Instead of Pills

In With Tales and Folly Instead of Pills, Dr. Merryandrew takes readers through a day of "clown rounds" in the Pediatric Unit and Pediatric Emergency Department of a mid-sized hospital in North Carolina. As he mimes a protective shield of light around a patient endowing it with the power of a wrinkle in time, dusts a patient with moonpowder, transforms into a chimney sweep to sweep pains and poisons from bodies with a magical brush, sings songs, tells tales, or introduces patients to the antics