THE UNSUNG HERO'S

Every year Dr. Samuel Weinstein, a heart surgeon and a team of medical personal give up their vacation time to go to 'El Salvador' on a mercy-mission to give operations to people who otherwise would be doomed without their help.

He was operating on an 8yr. old boy and everything was going well. It was a very intricate heart surgery involving replacing heart valves. During this over 12 hour long surgery the boy began bleeding profusely and they didn't have a lot of the medicines they would use to stop the bleeding. In addition to that They were running out of blood to give the boy. The little boys blood was B-negative and so was the surgeons so he stopped long enough to donate his own blood to the boy. Then went back to the boy in surgery.

When he was given praise for this, this is what he said,
"It's a real team effort," he said. "I'm getting the attention because I'm the one who gave the blood, but there wasn't anybody on the team — I mean anybody, the nurses, the clerks — who wouldn't have done it."


Sometimes we think about how much money people in the medical profession make, but do we ever think about what a hectic life it can be? Most them don't have much down time. Especially these hospital medical teams. Vacation time is down time. A time to relax and unwind.

To give up their vacations year after year to go somewhere where their is so much heartbreak to do something like this, when these people would never be able to get this kind of help,in my humble opinion is a pretty wonderful thing.

I think each person on this medical team is a true hero. The kind one might call the 'unsung hero's' of the world.
They do it without praise, out of the goodness of their hearts. They don't care if you hear about them or not they just want to help. They're certainly on my hero's list.