(Photograph) - Five-year-old Georgina Davidson from St Mary's Primary School in Askham Richard, north Yorkshire, listens to her sick teddy bear's chest with help from York University medical student Aaron Brown. The school runs a special Teddy Bear Hospital to ease children's anxieties about health and improve the communication skills of trainee medical students. Children can help work out a diagnosis, apply bandages and write prescriptions for their teddies. Photo Steve Race/Guzelian
Photo Steve Race/Guzelian
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