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|Videos|December 27, 2021
How a pediatrician uses chalk art to express herself
Author(s)Miranda Hester
A pediatrician shares how the hobby she started during the pandemic has helped her.
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Alisa Helfgott, DO, a pediatrician at Northwell Health in Howard Beach, New York and also Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, discusses the chalk art hobby that she started in earnest during the pandemic and how she chooses what she draws.
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