Opinion: Getting patients — and their doctors — through the dark days of Christmas takes teamwork
To the doctors, nurses, support staff, and first responders working on Christmas: thank you for the extra care you give your patients.
Death and sickness don’t take holidays. So on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, hospitals will be full of people needing medical care, and many health care professionals will be at their posts.
As a medical student, I didn’t give much thought to what it meant to spend the holidays in the hospital. Then, while I was doing a surgery rotation at the VA in Atlanta, I
