With love and admiration: Congratulations PharmGirl, MD! (Terra Sigillata)
<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ScienceblogsChannelEducation/~3/a6IUVVHEE48/with_love_and_admiration_congr.php">With love and admiration: Congratulations PharmGirl, MD! [Terra Sigillata]</a>
<img alt="stethoscope 200px.jpg" src="http://scienceblogs.com/terrasig/stethoscope%20200px.jpg" width="200" height="309" style="float:right;margin:0 0 20px 20px">Dear PharmGirl,
We wanted to make this note public today because a great many of our blog friends know of your dedication as both a physician, wife, and a mother.
Yesterday you finished an association with an institution where you have been since medical school. From young women with breast cancer to old men in the V.A. Hospital, literally thousands have been touched by your gifts of intelligence and compassion. The recognition from your patients was abundant and we were privy to the personal notes of just how much you have made a difference to families faced with one of the most fearful of diagnoses.
But while closing this chapter, for now, today you embark on a new journey and a new application of your medical training and dedication to relieving human suffering. We understand the magnitude of fortitude and soul-searching you invested to get to this day. It takes great courage to change direction in an academic medical career but we all know this is the right choice for you. In this venue, you will no doubt help thousands, if not millions, with your new knowledge and training.
You are a tremendous inspiration to your daughter of just what a woman can do with enough determination and hard work. And you are a role model for your husband to dig down deep and be the best person and soul mate that he can.
We are thrilled to be taking this exciting journey with you.
Love,
Pharmboy and PharmKid
