A Day for Dedicated Doctors
MedStar St. Mary’s will celebrate National Doctors’ Day on Friday, March 28, to thank the talented and highly skilled men and women who dedicate their lives to the practice of medicine.
Our hospital is proud of our medical staff’s high quality and qualifications, as well as their dedication to our patients and to the community as a whole. The celebration will include a breakfast, a special gift, and proclamations from the St. Mary’s County Board of Commissioners and the Leonardtown Commissioners.
“I am grateful to all of the men and women who share such a high level of commitment in caring for patients,” said Barbara Thompson, chairman of the MedStar St. Mary’s Hospital Board of Directors. “Their impressive dedication to the practice of medicine has not gone unnoticed.”
The first Doctors’ Day observance was March 30, 1933. It is celebrated annually to commemorate the anniversary of the first use of general anesthetic in surgery on the same date in 1842 by physician Crawford Long. In 1990, President George Bush signed a resolution designating March 30 as National Doctors’ Day.
MedStar St. Mary’s is celebrating its medical professionals on March 28 this year. In addition, the red carnation was established as the symbol for National Doctors’ Day because it denotes the qualities of love, charity, sacrifice, bravery and courage.
