The scratch you obtained from handling the stray cat outside is festering. It started out as a small scrape, nothing to worry about you thought. It will be fine in a week or so. Well you were wrong and now pus is seeping out along with yellow ooze. Who’re you going to call?  Your doctor!

         March 30th is National Doctor’s Day and a great time to call up the family Doc and say ‘Thank You for keeping me alive so far.’ Doctors get the generic appreciation after every check-up and physical, but it’s the life-changing surgeries that bring forth the tears of joy and thanks they really want to hear.  A card, basket of luscious fruit or perhaps even a random bear hug consisting of confetti and three other people is what doctors enjoy; you can see it in their eyes. Surrounded by sterilized objects and death most of the time, why not throw your doctor a bone (pardon the pun) and sprinkle some gratitude on their National Doctor’s Day Cake or get the whole family together and take a road trip to Mayo for a surprise visit to Dr. (Insert Name Here), to carry out that giant bear hug. I’m sure he/she will smile like the Cheshire cat from having received the acknowledgment.

         National Doctor’s Day was first started by Eudora Brown Almond from Winder, GA. National Doctor’s day has been celebrated since 1991 after George Bush signed the resolution passed by the Senate and Congress. It is marked by the first use of general anesthesia in surgery and the beginning of less suffering during. Doctors perform what some call miracles every day; they just call it their job. Celebrating a tribute to someone who saves lives every day? What’s the harm in that?