Meaningful Experience Being a Physician

Despite her own poor health, Margaret selflessly spent her days knitting quilts for her fellow hospice patients. As her disease progressed and it became increasingly difficult to complete her quilts, I learned to knit to help her in her endeavors. When I told Margaret I had learned to knit, tears fill her eyes as she told me that I had given her hands back. As we were knitting together or as she watched as I knit, Margaret would tell me stories about her time as a nurse, her regrets and joys, and pieces of wisdom she wished to impart upon me.