William C. Crowe, MSN, ACNP, (center) an Erlanger Nurse Practitioner working with the Department of Internal Medicine was honored with the Gold Humanism Honor Award for his consistent demonstration of high touch skills of communication, empathy, and compassion. Congratulating him are members of the UT College of Medicine Chattanooga Transitional Year Residency Program, (clockwise from bottom left): Genevieve Maass, MD, William Whitmire, MD, J. Bradley Allen, MD, Aaron Kline, MD, John Hungerford, MD, and Diana Tamboli, MD.
Dr. Robert C. Fore, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs for the University of Tennessee College of Medicine Chattanooga, announced that the UT College of Medicine will join with medical schools throughout North America undertaking projects to observe the 2nd Annual National Day of Solidarity for Compassionate Patient Care.
After Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot in Tuscon on Jan. 8, 2011, the first trauma surgeon to treat her, Dr. Randall Friese, struck a chord when he stated to the press that his most important actions that terrible day were “holding her hand, speaking to her, and reassuring her that she was in the hospital and would be cared for.” Medical schools and institutions across the U.S. and Canada stood in solidarity on Feb. 14, 2012 to pay tribute to all compassionate care givers like Dr. Randall Friese and the University Medical Center team in Tuscon who cared for the wounded and dying that day.
To honor this 2nd Annual National Day of Solidarity for Compassionate Patient Care, established in 2011 by the Arnold P. Gold Foundation and its national Gold Humanism Honor Society Chapters, the UT College of Medicine Chattanooga, its 2012 Transitional Year Residents, and UT Gold Humanism Honor Society Chapter, are distributing gold ribbon lapel pins with a gold “H” (for Humanism and compassionate care in medicine) to many of their colleagues. Also, an award was presented to William C. Crowe, MSN, ACNP, an Erlanger Nurse Practitioner working with the Department of Internal Medicine for his consistent demonstration of high touch skills of communication, empathy, and compassion.