National Doctors' Day Is March 30, 2024


When is National Doctors' Day 2024?

National Doctors' Day takes place on March 30, 2024. 

National Doctor's Day is commonly celebrated in health care organizations as a day to recognize the contributions of doctors to individual lives and communities.

These events are typically organized by staff at a health care organization. Staff may organize a lunch for doctor's present the doctor with a gift or coordinate a team lunch.

Doctors' Day marks the date that Crawford W. Long, M.D., of Jefferson, GA, administered the first ether anesthetic for surgery on March 30, 1842.

On that day, Dr. Long administered ether anesthesia to a patient and then operated to remove a tumor from the man's neck.

Later, the patient would swear that he felt nothing during the surgery and was not aware the surgery was over until he awoke.

The first Doctors' Day observance was March 30, 1933 in Winder, Georgia.

Eudora Brown Almond, wife of Dr. Charles B. Almond, decided to set aside a day to honor physicians.

This first observance included the mailing greeting cards and placing flowers on graves of deceased doctors.

The red carnation is commonly used as the symbolic flower for National Doctors Day. 


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