A therapy dog in Baltimore is bringing joy to health care workers through digital therapy dog visits.Loki, a 2-year-old Rottweiler therapy dog at the University of Maryland Medical Center is known for comforting patients each week. But when the coronavirus pandemic prevented therapy dogs from visiting
A therapy dog in Baltimore is bringing joy to health care workers through digital therapy dog visits.
Benzel, who is a second-year medical student at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, started training Loki since she was 18 weeks old. She gets Loki acclimated to the hospital’s environment and patients, Benzel has described her pup as a natural at her job. “I was seeing the masks doing the damage to the nursing staff, the doctors, the social workers, because everyone, custodians to doctors are all required to wear it,” Benzel said.
The kits were also a way for Benzel to give back to the medical community who stood by her when Loki recently had to undergo ACL surgery for a broken foot, which required cash up front.
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