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.

he’d brought sandwiches to the night staff after the cafeteria closed.

A father held up a photo of a young woman in a graduation gown.

“You sat with her on the floor before her surgery because she refused to get into the bed.”

The young pediatrician spoke last.

“Everything compassionate about the doctor I’ve become,” she said, “I learned from watching continue reading …