A doctor saved my life thirty years ago when everyone believed I wouldn’t make it—yesterday, I saw him again and changed his life.

“They have families. Mortgages. Their own problems.”

“So did the people you helped.”

“That was different.”

“Why?”

“That was different.”

He thought about the question longer than it warranted.

“Because they needed me.”

There it was.

Not pride, exactly.

Habit.

“Because they needed me.”

Dr. Bennett had spent a lifetime standing on the useful side of every crisis.continue reading …