On National Doctors’ Day, celebrated each year on March 30, we honor the dedication and contributions of physicians and advanced care professionals as they positively impact their patients. We thank these healthcare providers for all that they do for us and our loved ones, as well as our greater community. Despite the many professional and personal challenges they have faced to provide care throughout the pandemic, we are especially grateful for their steadfast and reliable service during the last two years. Caring for our community like family has never meant more or been more evident.
Read UW Medicine’s Doctors’ Day tribute article featuring our own:
Amisha Mehta, MD, Palliative Care
Heather Wheeler, MD, General Surgery
Watch Valley’s Doctors’ Day thank you video to our providers and learn what motivates and inspires some of them in their practices at Valley. And thank you to the caregivers who participated in sharing their thoughts in honor of Doctors’ Day 2022.
Introductory thank yous:
Kalen Privatsky, Senior VP, Ambulatory Services
Matt Mulder, MD, Chief Medical Director, Ambulatory Services
Participating providers:
Wayne Lau, MD, General Surgery
Lindsay Nofziger, ARNP, Internal Medicine Clinic
Triet Nguyen, MD, Psychiatry & Counseling Clinic
MaryEllen Maccio, MD, Valley Women’s Healthcare Clinic
Rachel Nginyi-Munyoli, ARNP, Neuroscience Institute
Long Nguyen, DO, Kent Station Primary Care
Paramita Mukherjee, MD, Nephrology
Concluding words of thanks:
Jamie Park, MD, Chief Medical Officer
I admire and support doctors everywhere, even more so after the last 2 years. However I am puzzled as to why you lump together “providers” for Doctors Day. There is a separate day (in fact I think a week) to recognize PAs and ARNP. Doctors have put in YEARS of education and training and should get their recognition distinct from “providers”. Give Doctors their day.
Thank you for your comment and we’re glad to know that you recognize the hard work and dedication of doctors, particularly after the increased demands and risks associated with the COVID pandemic. Here at Valley, we try to find opportunities to recognize all of our caregivers, including our healthcare providers, when there are national days and weeks identified for professional group recognition. Many of our nurse practitioners have doctorate degrees (DNP) so we wanted to make sure that we extended our recognition to them on Doctors’ Day, along with our physicians.