A Canadian neurosurgeon performed a 'career first' after his young patient asked for a special favour prior to his operation.
Heading into the hospital for surgery can be a scary event at any age. But for Jackson McKie, an eight-year-old living with a cyst in his brain and a chronic condition called hydrocephalus, hospital visits are common place. ike most kids his age, Jackson brought his favourite teddy bear into the operating room with him, and when he asked his doctor, Daniel McNeely to stitch up his arm, the neurosurgeon couldn’t say no.
The doctor asked his team to prepare a table with some tools for the job; he then used leftover stitches from McKie’s procedure to fix up the bear.
“He’s one of the nicest human beings I’ve ever met,” Jackson’s father, Rick McKie, said of McNeely. His father continues to say that Jackson was thrilled when he woke from his surgery to find his beloved bear, Little Baby, had been fixed up by McNeely, just like he had been.
“I thought it might make a few people smile, that was the only intention I had,” said McNeely on the virility of his actions.
“I’m glad that others are enjoying it.” As McNeely’s first-ever tweet had been retweeted more than 13K times and commented on by people all over the world who were just as touched as McKie, Little Baby, and his family. Dr. Daniel McNeely’s act of kindness is a heartwarming example of what healthcare professionals can do to brighten their patient’s lives in non-medical ways.
- Internet