National Doctor's Day in the USA (30/03)

National Doctor's Day has been celebrated annually on March 30 since 1991. The resolution establishing it was signed on October 30, 1990 by US President J. Bush, and also officially approved by Congress and the Senate.

But, in fact, Doctor's Day began to be celebrated long before official America recognized this day as national. History takes us to March 30, 1933, to the city of Winder, Georgia.

The idea of celebrating Doctor's Day belongs to Eudora Brown Almond —, the wife of Dr. Charles Elmond (Dr. Charles B. Almond), which decided to express respect for the work of her husband and all doctors in preserving the health of citizens. The first celebration of Doctor's Day was marked by sending greeting cards to medical practitioners and laying flowers on the graves of departed doctors. The symbol of Doctor's Day in America is the red carnation.

It was proposed to celebrate the holiday on this day to commemorate the anniversary of the first use of general anesthesia by the American doctor and pharmacist Crawford Williamson Long (1815—1878) in 1842.

Today, this holiday is very popular in the medical and medical community of America, because National Doctor's Day glorifies one of the longest and most popular professions in the world, the – profession of a doctor.

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