I know we all have sad moments, but sad moments that are memorable are usually ones that we have learned something, about ourselves maybe. Loosing patient's is something the we deal with often in our field. SOmetimes sharing those sad times helps use grieve .

My saddest moment was a 2 year old boy named Anthony who had Neuroblastoma. We all knew he would not see his 3rd birthday. He was a champ though, never complained about anything, always smiled and loved to cuddle. When it became clear he would not see his 3rd Christmas the family and I pulled together to have Christmas in September. The fire department was great I got their help to get us snow, a company that made snow for the ski resorts agreed to make snow for the entire coldesac. First Halloween was celebrated the whole street decorated and trick or treated, the next day was Thanksgiving, the street again all participated, then a few days later we had Christmas, the fire department brought a large engine and took Anthony for a ride, snow men were made and everyone on the street decorated for Christmas, the News was their as well. As far as Anthony knew it was in fact Christmas, santa of course showed up, ANthony died 3 days later. I cried for days, my son was 2 at the time and I remember coming home and waking him up at 3 am just to hold him. This was my saddest moment in my career.

My saddest moment is when i see poor patients who cannot affird to pay  for their meds, their hospital bill, everyone deserves proper health care young and old, rich or poor...

you are very admirable Eric