{"id":8730,"date":"2024-06-29T07:00:20","date_gmt":"2024-06-29T07:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=8730"},"modified":"2024-06-29T07:26:45","modified_gmt":"2024-06-29T07:26:45","slug":"how-dr-alex-arroyo-spends-his-sundays-in-costume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=8730","title":{"rendered":"How Dr. Alex Arroyo Spends His Sundays (in Costume)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dr. Alex Arroyo, a director of pediatric medicine in Brooklyn, gets to live out his \u201cStar Wars\u201d dreams, practice jujitsu and make a big mess while cooking for his family.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHey, buddy, how are you doing?\u201d a man wearing a Boba Fett costume said as he leaned over the bed of a young boy in a hospital gown.<\/p>\n

It was a Sunday afternoon in the emergency room at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, where Dr. Alex Arroyo, the hospital\u2019s director of pediatric emergency medicine, often dons one of more than 20 costumes when he visits patients. His favorite is Boba Fett, the famed bounty hunter from the \u201cStar Wars\u201d films.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love what I do, but it\u2019s sure hot in there!\u201d said Dr. Arroyo, 48, who has worked at the hospital since 2006. He started wearing costumes in 2021.<\/p>\n

A die-hard \u201cStar Wars\u201d fan who grew up watching the original trilogy with his parents, Dr. Arroyo has passed that love on to his two youngest children, Grayson, 8, and Karra, 6. For New York Comic Con each year, the whole family dresses up, including his wife, Dr. Sharon Yellin, 44, a fellow pediatric emergency medicine physician who works at NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital. One year they went as the family from \u201cEncanto.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI was the big, strong sister with the donkey,\u201d Dr. Arroyo said, referring to the character Luisa.<\/p>\n

Dr. Arroyo, who also has a 21-year-old son, Colin, from a previous marriage, was born in the Borough Park neighborhood of South Brooklyn \u2014 at Maimonides, in fact. Now he lives less than a mile from the house where he grew up, in a four-bedroom, three-story 1920s brownstone. He uses one of the spare bedrooms as his office and rents out the third floor.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a frightening place to be inside of because I\u2019m also an active-duty comic collector,\u201d he said of his office. \u201cIt\u2019s filled wall to wall with toys. It\u2019s my sanctuary away from the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Dr. Alex Arroyo, a director of pediatric medicine in Brooklyn, gets to live out his \u201cStar Wars\u201d dreams, practice jujitsu and make a big mess while cooking for his family.\u201cHey, buddy, how are you doing?\u201d a man wearing a Boba Fett costume said as he leaned over the bed of a young boy in a hospital gown.It was a Sunday afternoon in the emergency room at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, where Dr. Alex Arroyo, the hospital\u2019s director of pediatric emergency medicine, often dons one of more than 20 costumes when he visits patients. His favorite is Boba Fett, the famed bounty hunter from the \u201cStar Wars\u201d films.\u201cI love what I do, but it\u2019s sure hot in there!\u201d said Dr. Arroyo, 48, who has worked at the hospital since 2006. He started wearing costumes in 2021.A die-hard \u201cStar Wars\u201d fan who grew up watching the original trilogy with his parents, Dr. Arroyo has passed that love on to his two youngest children, Grayson, 8, and Karra, 6. For New York Comic Con each year, the whole family dresses up, including his wife, Dr. Sharon Yellin, 44, a fellow pediatric emergency medicine physician who works at NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital. One year they went as the family from \u201cEncanto.\u201d\u201cI was the big, strong sister with the donkey,\u201d Dr. Arroyo said, referring to the character Luisa.Dr. Arroyo, who also has a 21-year-old son, Colin, from a previous marriage, was born in the Borough Park neighborhood of South Brooklyn \u2014 at Maimonides, in fact. Now he lives less than a mile from the house where he grew up, in a four-bedroom, three-story 1920s brownstone. He uses one of the spare bedrooms as his office and rents out the third floor.\u201cIt\u2019s a frightening place to be inside of because I\u2019m also an active-duty comic collector,\u201d he said of his office. \u201cIt\u2019s filled wall to wall with toys. It\u2019s my sanctuary away from the world.\u201dWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8732,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8730"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8733,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8730\/revisions\/8733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}