While waiting to start rounding with the pediatric oncologist I was working with, I noticed several nurses in the office filling out forms. Being curious, I asked what they were for. "Donations," she told me. They were donating time. A fellow nurse had an immediate family member who'd recently suffered a stroke. She had used up all her own sick and personal days and in order to help their friend and colleague, the nurses in the office were donating their own sick days so she could continue to care for her loved one. I will never forget seeing every nurse in that office sitting there giving away their precious time to another.
-A Fourth Year Medical Student
