Wednesday, March 14, 2012

I really appreciate your hard work

When the son of blogger Anesthesioboist complained of stomach pains, they made a visit to Children's Hospital Boston, where he ultimately had an appendectomy.  You can read the whole story here.

As she reports:

My son never once forgot to say "Thank you" to his caregivers whenever they did something for him. Before I left for the night he even thanked me for bringing him to the hospital. I am grateful for his sweetness, and for the wonderful individuals who saw us through his first major ordeal. We owe them all a debt that I can only repay by trying to be for my patients what they were for us.

Well, that's not quite the whole story.  The final chapter was this note from the little boy to his doctor:


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