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Bedside cinema by Michael Baker Public Relations After a long day filled with examinations and diagnostic testing, an exhausted Morgan Burchette sat in her bed at MUSC Children’s Hospital, enthralled with the Transplant Center’s feature presentation of Walt Disney's “Snow Dogs.” Morgan Burchette enjoys potato chips and a movie in the Children’s Hospital. Morgan was too tired to attend the public presentation at the Basic Science Building, but she was able to take advantage of a private broadcast in her own room.  Only a year ago a renovation project refitted the Basic Science Building to show bi-monthly movies in its auditorium. The movies are geared towards patients and families in the Children’s Hospital. Now the project has expanded to show each movie on channel 37 of the closed circuit televisions in the children’s rooms.  “Many of the children in the hospital are just too sick to go to the auditorium,” said Vanessa Hill, transplant liaison, “so we’re making sure that this experience is bigger than ever.” Currently 86 beds in the Children’s Hospital access the movies. Hill hopes for further expansion in the future. She praised the hard work of people from various university departments, such as distance education, education programs, engineering, and research. Their combined efforts have made the Children’s Hospital one of the first in the United States to have the audio-visual system in place. “We’ve done something that other hospitals are still trying to do,” she said. “Right now, we are the prototype for the rest of the country.”     Catalyst Online is published weekly, updated as needed and improved from time to time by the MUSC Office of Public Relations for the faculty, employees and students of the Medical University of South Carolina. Catalyst Online editor, Kim Draughn, can be reached at 792-4107 or by email, catalyst@musc.edu. Editorial copy can be submitted to Catalyst Online and to The Catalyst in print by fax, 792-6723, or by email to petersnd@musc.edu or catalyst@musc.edu. To place an ad in The Catalyst hardcopy, call Community Press at 849-1778.