Minimally related to waiting rooms, but relevant to children learning by playing with medical equipment. My daughter's kindergarten teacher annually planned a health center in the classroom for a few weeks at the first of the year. Themes and materials varied from year to year depending mostly on whatever health professional parents...some years teeth were big, some years eyes or what have you. Our years...medicines. ( We wrote up our curriculum in Am J Hosp Pharmacy in Nov 1999) Anyway, Katy's year, somebody grabbed a box of gloves from work. One little boy, S/P 15+ operations for omphalocele, had an anaphylactic reaction to gloves. Katy came home and said that Jake went to the hospital in an ambulance, but he was fine. I volunteered in the classroom the next day, and sorted through the health center materials...pulled out some oldfashioned Penrose drain type tourniquets and other rubber stuff. Other lessons: School nurse needs to be authorized to give epi and Benadryl IM...not all are. Might want to check, like you all don't have enough opportunites for community activism. Jake's parents were told at one point..."he had a rash after I touched his arm with gloves on, but its probably not latex allergy, that's such a pain". I wrote this up with the school nurse, published in J Peds in about 1996 or so. Kelly Burch, PharmD Clinical Pharmacist-Neonatology/Pediatrics St. John's Mercy Medical Center St. Louis, MO 314 569 6933 ext 5276