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A Health Care Theater Company
Primarily, GMP is a health care theater company as their year-round signature program brings comedic performers bedside to nursing homes and pediatric patients. The comedic performers use physical comedy, improvisation, music, the circus arts and more to help relieve anxiety, isolation and sadness often found in the medical environment. GMP's tagline is "Find Your Joy." But it's not so much that the performers bring the joy, but act as a catalyst for the residents and kiddos to find their joy that lives inside all of us. GMP currently serves several nursing homes in central Ohio and has partnered with several non-profits like the Ronald McDonald House and the Friends of Faith Pruden Foundation to reach families of hospitalized kids who need us most. |
Good Medicine Specialist Goals and Values
Goals:
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Artistry
The Good Medicine Specialists use physical comedy, music, circus arts, magic, improvisation and more to bring joy to young patients and to help relieve stress, anxiety and isolation often felt in the medical environment.
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Our LookAll of the Good Medicine Specialists are designed to be very approachable in appearance and action. Our performers all wear "medical" costumes that are uniquely tailored to fit their character with minimal make up. Our movements and gestures are always appropriate to the environment and are fun, playful, and gentle.
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Visits
Good Medicine Specialists engage by following the patient’s lead, evoking humor through authentic connection and trust. We use the traditional role of the clown – powerless, confused, naïve and prone to mistakes yet persistent and hopeful – to empower patients in a setting that for them is often scary and out of control. All specialists are continuously trained in infection control and HIPPA regulations.
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