Cartoons used to perk up patients

A nurse in Zhengzhou, Henan province, has hit upon an unusual way to keep her patients' spirits up - drawing cartoons.

Ding Miaowen, a 29-year-old nurse who works at Zhengzhou Central Hospital, was thrust into the public eye after one of her doodles, drawn for a 23-year-old man who was badly injured in a car crash in August, went viral recently.

The patient had to undergo microsurgery on his broken leg, followed by a four-monthlong recovery.