Careers in Anesthesiology:  The Joy in Volunteering, Volume XI, 2008.

Edited by Donald Caton and Kathryn E. McGoldrick.

 

CAREERS XI, the final volume in the series, tells the altruistic stories of eight anesthesiologists who gave their time and energy to benefit others and the communities within and outside their professional and personal confines.

 

Their stories take the reader from Africa to the frozen tundra of northern Canada to Central Asia. One was called to collect and channel medical equipment to needy foreign communities. Another turned to elected office to serve in municipal government. Two raised financial resources to restore a prominent public monument symbolic of anesthesia. Another helped to save a teaching program threatened by a disastrous natural calamity. Lastly, a long-standing family tradition of volunteering shaped a noble, giving spirit to serve in non-profit institutions within, and beyond, the realm of anesthesiology.

 

In full display here is anesthesiology voluntarism as a noble repayment to society. It is a joy to read these stories of giving, which are an inspiration for young physicians who may choose to do likewise.

 

ISBN: 1-889595-17-9