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Jun 17, 2006
"Each one sees what he carries in his heart." --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Doc Pauses Surgery, Gives Patient Blood
Open heart surgery does require a patient's heart to be opened, but how often is it that the doctor's heart must also be open? Dr. Samuel Weinstein had started a critical operation on an 8-year-old patient about 12 hours earlier, when they started running out of the rare-type blood to give the boy. So what does Dr. Weinstein, who was volunteering his cardiac surgery skills in El Salvador, do? He takes a break from the surgery so that he could donate his own matching-type blood! Dr. Weinstein said he had his blood drawn, ate a Pop-Tart, returned to the operating table and watched as his blood helped the boy survive the complex surgery. "It was a little bit surreal," he shared.
BE THE CHANGE
While already serving, Dr. Weinstein took an opportunity to do further good. Volunteer your own skills for one afternoon during an upcoming weekend and see what other service opportunities you carry in your heart.
