Daily Almanac for Tuesday, March 30, 2021: National Doctors’ Day in the United States

Doctor’s Day was born on this date in 1842. A specialist cardiology stethoscope. 2008 photo By Stethoscopes – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https commons.wikimedia.org.jpg

National Doctors’ Day

United States (from Wikipedia Commons)

In the United States, National Doctors’ Day is a day on which the service of physicians to the nation is recognized annually. The idea came from Eudora Brown Almond, wife of Dr. Charles B. Almond, and the date chosen was the anniversary of the first use of general anesthesia in surgery. On March 30, 1842, in Jefferson, GeorgiaDr. Crawford Long used ether to anesthetize a patient, James Venable, and painlessly excised a tumor from his neck.

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