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PHOTOS: School Kids Hold Teddy Bear Clinic

A Stony Brook University Hospital nurse visited the classrooms to help in the activity.

As a certain Disney Junior show has made the idea of a child playing doctor to their toys much more popular, teachers at Mt. Pleasant Elementary School Smithtown decided to hold a teddy bear clinic of their own for their kindergarten classes. A Stony Brook University Hospital nurse visited the classrooms to help in the activity.

"The students had the opportunity to 'diagnose' their teddy bear with an illness or injury and come up with a treatment," the district said in an email.

Our diagnosis? Stuffy noses.


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