A Second Thanksgiving

I just received an email from one of my attendings about a patient I cared for at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. The patient's son who was extraordinarily grateful for the care his mother received, got his employer to create a matching fund for Valley Medical Center and then donated a good sum of money to the hospital. I was really touched by such an act of generosity. The truth is, anyone could have been the intern for this patient and this likely would have happened. But it makes me feel good to have influenced this patient's family so, and to have helped the hospital indirectly as well.