Takeaway
“My patients’ first breath after receiving a lung transplant. Watching them take a new deep breath is a miracle!”-Dr. Panagis Galiatsatos, Johns Hopkins Medicine
Passion in the Medical Profession | December 16, 2022 | <1 min read
Highlights
Living a year with AIDS when I trained was a miracle.
Dr. Eric Last, Northwell Health
I've witnessed both patients and family members perform acts of generosity and love of such breathtakingly beauty that defy all expectation and any explanation, and meet my definition of the miraculous.
Dr. David Hellman, Johns Hopkins Medicine
I was a passenger in a car driving from Montreal to Toronto on the Trans-Canada highway during a winter storm. There was a thin layer of snow on road. Our car spun out, we crossed the median, went through the oncoming traffic (many big trucks), and came to a stop on the far shoulder.
Dr. Scott Wright, Johns Hopkins Medicine
A 92-year-old patient I've cared for over 30 years and is still playing golf, has survived in order: metastatic rhabdomyosarcoma requiring partial lung resection, squamous cell carcinoma of the pharynx requiring partial mandible resection, and most recently for the past nine years, metastatic melanoma.
Dr. Mike Fingerhood, Johns Hopkins Medicine
Recovering from an opioid use disorder usually seems like a miracle to my patients’ family and friends.
Dr. Margaret Chisolm, Johns Hopkins Medicine
My patients' first breath after receiving a lung transplant. Watching them take a new deep breath is a miracle!
Dr. Panagis Galiatsatos, Johns Hopkins Medicine
I've had many patients experience things that defied rational explanation, especially in the cardiac intensive care unit.
Dr. Roy Ziegelstein, Johns Hopkins Medicine
A relative was run over by an SUV, tire treads imprinted across their back. Despite osteoporosis and recently healed broken bones, they suffered no bodily harm. Miracle, indeed.