{"id":203,"date":"2007-04-01T15:11:15","date_gmt":"2007-04-01T22:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/?p=203"},"modified":"2007-04-01T15:11:15","modified_gmt":"2007-04-01T22:11:15","slug":"happy-doctors-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/01\/happy-doctors-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Doctor’s Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"

This past Friday (March 30th) was National Doctors’ Day.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 We got some cookies and heart shaped chocolates.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 I thought it was just a Children’s Hospital thing, but then I learned that it’s actually a nationally recognized day, always on March 30th.<\/p>\n

The history of Doctors’ Day –<\/strong> The first Doctors\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 Day observance was March 30, 1933, in Winder, GA. The idea came from Eudora Brown Almond, wife of Dr. Cha Almond, and the date was the anniversary of the first use of general anesthetic in surgery. (On March 30, 1842, Dr. Crawford Long of Barrow County, GA, used ether to remove a tumor from a patient\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s neck.)<\/p>\n

The Barrow County Medical Society Auxiliary proclaimed the day \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cDoctors\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 Day\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d, which was celebrated by mailing cards to physicians and their wives, and by placing flowers on the graves of deceased doctors, including Dr. Long.<\/p>\n

The United States House of Representatives adopted a resolution commemorating Doctors\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 Day on March 30, 1958. In 1990, legislation was introduced into the United States House of Representatives and United States Senate to establish a National Doctors’ Day. Following overwhelming approval by the House and Senate, then-President George H. W. Bush signed a resolution designating March 30 as National Doctors\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 Day. The first National Doctors\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 Day was celebrated in 1991. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This past Friday (March 30th) was National Doctors’ Day.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 We got some cookies and heart shaped chocolates.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 I thought it was just a Children’s Hospital thing, but then I learned that it’s actually a nationally recognized day, always on March … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-residency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}