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Today is…National Doctors Day
National Doctors Day honors America’s physicians by recognizing their contributions and service to individuals, communities, and the nation. Health care organizations are at the forefront of the day’s observation, and patients and other benefactors of the healthcare industry are urged to honor physicians as well. The day takes place on the anniversary of the first use of general anesthesia in surgery, which occurred when Dr. Crawford Long used ether on March 30, 1842, while removing a tumor from the neck of James Venable in Jefferson, Georgia.
The holiday, which early on was simply called Doctors’ Day, was created by Eudora Brown Almond of Winder, Georgia, whose husband, Charles, was a medical doctor. On the first observance, on March 30, 1933, cards were mailed to physicians and their wives, flowers were put on the graves of physicians—including that of Dr. Long—and a formal dinner was held in the home of Dr. and Mrs. William T. Randolph.
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