My wife and I both work at a local hospital. Given the patient population and limited resources it is easy to understand how the hospital staff is overstretched. One may attribute that to a lack of desire of our colleagues, however this is not the case. My background is in laboratory science. Our hospital normally does not have the resources required to offer any sort of pathologic tests. However, one day surprisingly I was able to procure some eosin stain. I stained a sample from a patient. When the chief surgeon heard about what we were doing he ran to the lab and demanded to see it! He mentioned that he had not seen this test done for quite a while. He was so excited and was unaware this was possible at our facility. Per the stain he changed the medication which he had prescribed to another. It also greatly encouraged me too. That yes, my colleagues were overstretched but they still had the same desire to offer to their patients quality care. It is indeed a privilege to work with a staff that, despite challenges, are all working toward the same outcome.

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