Labyrinths Find Their Way onto Hospital Grounds as Paths to Healing.
By Jim Gersbach

Walking labyrinths, recently opened at Kaiser Permanente (KP) Sunnyside and Antioch Medical Center hospitals, are intended to let those who enter find their way along a single, clear path. Modeled on the labyrinth of Chartres Cathedral in France, the labyrinths were first tested, through a KP innovation grant, on “finger labyrinths”--boards with the paths grooved into the wood. Surveys of users’ stress levels revealed that most felt more relaxed afterward.
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Cody.
By William Lynes, MD

The story of a five-year-old boy named Cody who was cared for by Urology Intern, Dr Cody, after fracturing his kidney in a car crash that killed his parents.
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Colic.
By William Lynes, MD

A stone comes alive and recounts its journey through the renal system to expulsion from a woman’s urethra.
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