Joseph Aaron

Review of UCSF Medical Center

Greatest Nurse of All Times

Greatest Nurse of All Times
Margaret and Mercedes
Floor 6 Long
505 Parnassus Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94143

Dear Margaret and Mercedes,

This is a love letter. I don t really know you but I will always love you. Our relationship was really intense for two and a half days back in early November of 2018.

I was deeply disappointment two months later when I looked up the word empathy in the dictionary and your picture did not jump out to greet me. I just knew you would be there.

I think of you often. I think of you when I tell the story to anyone that will listen of my DBS operation and convalescing under your competent and emotive eyes.

I have tried to write this letter a half dozen times. I could never complete it because I was always overcome with emotion. The words would not come, writer s block reigned supreme. I told all my friends about my experiences with you. This proved to be equally embarrassing because I would tear up and my voice would desert me.

Yet, I cannot allow your heroic efforts on my behalf to pass without acknowledgement. What you gave me cannot be prescribed by a doctor. It is your special gift. Only you can give it. It is the gift of empathy.
You promised me that within a day or two, my pain would go away. How could eye contact like yours convey anything other than a message of truth? And just as you promised, the pain went away.

You know that that mean, mean Doctor Larson? The man who gave me those awful headaches, not to mention that shameful haircut, was right. My essential tremor has disappeared. My hair has grown back and I am much, much cuter now than Dr. Larson.

In closing, I have a suggestion for you. Do you think you could lower the glow on that halo over your head? It could be a little too much at times.

I will forever be your most grateful patient,

Joe