Giving Thanks for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine

Gratitude is a characteristic that we all share but seldom express enough to those who have impacted our lives. Maya Angelou wrote, “This is a wonderful day … I have never seen this one before.” For many of us, the wonderful new day of work that we strive to achieve and the unique individual qualities that we have aspired to develop have been due to a select, special few who have guided us along our journeys. More than 15 years ago, Jim Lett, MD, CMDR, past president of AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care (PALTC) Medicine and a former Foundation for PALTC Medicine chair, gave me the opportunity to do more — and be more — for the Society.