“But a Samaritan traveler who came upon him was moved with compassion at the sight. He approached the victim, poured oil and wine over his wounds and bandaged them. . . .He took him to an inn, and cared for him”  

 From Unsung Heroes, a series of common folk helping others—most often strangers—the following story highlights the little known but not forgotten effort of a ‘good samaritan.’ Many years ago, when Kimberly was training to become a nurse practitioner, she was doing rounds with a physician named Dr. Joe. It was an average day until they visited a patient experiencing nausea and abdominal pain. When the pair left the room, Dr. Joe told Kim the woman's diagnosis. It was terminal pancreatic cancer. Then Dr. Joe did something she'd never seen a physician do before. It was a specific way of easing the pain, for both the patient and her loved ones. "He picked up the phone and called her husband and said, 'Hey, I'm worried about your wife. Can you come up to the clinic?'" As soon as Dr. Joe hung up the phone, he asked his assistant to schedule all the tests and follow-ups the woman would need. It's a process that normally takes weeks, but the assistant scheduled the appointments within an hour. When they went back to the patient's room to share the diagnosis, the woman received the news with all her tests scheduled, and her husband by her side. "We're supposed to save lives," Dr Joe told Kim. "But eventually in your career, there will come a time when you can't save everybody. But what you can do is you can change how they experience it.” A few years passed, and as Kim went on to care for her own patients, she kept the doctor's lesson in the back of her mind. 

Not everyone is your brother or sister in faith, but everyone is your neighbor, and you must love your neighbor."   From Unsung Heroes, a series of common folk helping others—most often strangers—the following story highlights the little known but not forgotten effort of a ‘good samaritan.’ Many years ago, when Kimberly was training to become a nurse practitioner, she was doing rounds with a physician named Dr. Joe. It was an average day until they visited a patient experiencing nausea and abdominal pain. When the pair left the room, Dr. Joe told Kim the woman's diagnosis. It was terminal pancreatic cancer. Then Dr. Joe did something she'd never seen a physician do before. It was a specific way of easing the pain, for both the patient and her loved ones. "He picked up the phone and called her husband and said, 'Hey, I'm worried about your wife. Can you come up to the clinic?'" As soon as Dr. Joe hung up the phone, he asked his assistant to schedule all the tests and follow-ups the woman would need. It's a process that normally takes weeks, but the assistant scheduled the appointments within an hour. When they went back to the patient's room to share the diagnosis, the woman received the news with all her tests scheduled, and her husband by her side. "We're supposed to save lives," Dr Joe told Kim. "But eventually in your career, there will come a time when you can't save everybody. But what you can do is you can change how they experience it.” A few years passed, and as Kim went on to care for her own patients, she kept the doctor's lesson in the back of her mind.