Give ‘Til It Hurts
Hospital, Maryland, Nurses, Patients, USA | Healthy | July 6, 2022
I was just starting to work as a nurse at a new hospital, and I was still pretty new to everything. I was checking on one of the patients and was surprised to see that his room was much larger than the usual rooms, with only one person in it and a nice view out of a window, as well.
Me: “Oh, wow! Looks like you got the fancy room today. What do you have to do to get one of these?”
Patient: “Well, you know some men would give an arm and a leg for this place. Me, I only had to give a kidney.”
And that’s how I first learned that my hospital gave organ donors extra nice rooms as a thank you for their sacrifice.
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