Celebrating National Doctor’s Day 2019!

National Doctors’ Day is celebrated to recognize the contributions of physicians to individual lives and communities. The idea came from Eudora Brown Almond, wife of Dr. Charles B. Almond, and the date chosen was the anniversary of the first use of general anesthesia in surgery. On March 30, 1842, in Jefferson, Georgia, Dr. Crawford Long used ether to anesthetize a patient, James Venable, and painlessly excised a tumor from his neck.

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Follow along today with the hashtag #DoctorsDay!