In actuality, there are no toys or games or techs dressed up like pirates for the patients to play with; it's a monkey painted on wall wearing a bandana, a tiger with an eye patch, and a device normally used to detect bone trauma, tumors, and hemorrhages dressed up like the helm of a ship. "Kids who are sick know so many ways of distancing themselves from what is going on physically," says Hawkins. "Much more than grown-ups do. I mean, we pay for yoga, it doesn't work. We're told if you can meditate you're smarter — the children are the smartest."