I don't know who wrote this, but if I knew how to write a poem, and had a way with words, this is what I would have written:
Monday, 24 March 2014
Thursday, 20 March 2014
The Generous Gift of a Glass of Milk that Ended up Paying for Medical Care -Truth!
This story has been circulating on social medias for quite some time now. Still beautiful. It should tell us that there is no reason to hold back kindness untill you think you can offer real help; preferably big time!
As is often the case, someone has fictionalized the details of this story and gotten some of it wrong, but it is essentially a true event.
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The
Truth:
Dr. Howard Kelly was a distinguished physician who, in 1895, founded the Johns Hopkins Division of Gynecologic Oncology at Johns Hopkins University.
According to Dr. Kelly's biographer, Audrey Davis, the
doctor was on a walking trip through Northern Pennsylvania one spring day
when he stopped by a farm house for a drink of water. A little girl
answered his knock at the door and instead of water, brought him a glass of
fresh milk. He visited with her briefly, then went his way.
Sometime after that, the little girl came to him as a patient and needed surgery.
After the surgery, the bill was brought to her room and on it were the words,
"Paid in full with one glass of milk."
www.Truthorfiction.com thanks Andrew Harrison, the Processing Archivist and Fine Arts Coordinator for the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, for help with this story. Posted 7/6/07 |
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