Patients Helping Patients

  Anesthesiologist Fred Mihm and Evelyn 
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Mary Whitehead, coordinator / translator:  Six-year -old Evelyn is such a sweetie. Both she and another little boy were brought to the PACU (recovery room). She was going to have a block done before her surgery and he was having a dressing change. She had to wait for her procedure and was busy coloring. The boy was very nervous and anxious and she picked up on it and started talking to him to distract him. He got so engaged with her that he made it through the dressing change unscathed. For being so young, her instincts and compassion are amazing.