What Residency Looks Like LXXXI: Acts of Kindness

Since 1998, November 13 has been celebrated as World Kindness Day in an attempt to create a better world by promoting good deeds and acts of kindness. Our local PBS and NPR affiliate, WQED, linked its celebration to Mr. Rogers, who filmed his famous children's show in their studios for decades, as a way to premier an interactive mixed-media exhibit about Fred Rogers by artist Wayne Brezinka entitled "Mister Rogers: Just the Way You Are." In response, my residency program challenged us to wear cardigans today.

Here's a photo of me and one of my colleagues, who had just given his senior talk about pulmonary hypertension in patients with heart failure. The kindness I did was to come early, sit in front, and take notes, so he didn't feel like the large amount of work he had put into his talk was wasted in a half-empty auditorium.

“There’s no person in the whole world like you, and I like you just the way you are.” ~ Mr. Rogers

What kindness did you do today?

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