Doctor's Day on Monday Moments (ep. #137)
Live Inspired Podcast with John O'Leary
John O'Leary
4.9 • 672 Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2019
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
Join me every Monday for a quick burst of inspiration on our "Monday Moments" segments.
Today, I take pause to celebrate Doctor's Day and share the important role play in all our lives. With a special shout out to my childhood physician, Dr. Tsifutis, who I recently got to have lunch with and thank in person.
I reference the three lessons I learned from my burn doctors that I still live by today. Hear about these and how they apply in your life on one of our most listened to episodes: Live Inspired Podcast ep. #117.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, my friends, today is Doctor's Day. You may not have had it on your calendar. You may not have had it on your heart or your mind when you awoke this morning. But I want you to think about it just for a moment. |
| 0:21.1 | This really is Doctor's Day. It's a day when we have an opportunity to pause, to pause and to |
| 0:27.1 | celebrate the doctors in our lives. My brother Jim and I recently had the opportunity to take an old |
| 0:33.8 | friend of ours out to lunch with mom and dad are on the table with us, Jim and I sat next to a |
| 0:40.5 | gentleman named Dr. Argy Safutis. Dr. Safutus was born 91 years ago in Greece. He has an amazing |
| 0:50.3 | epic tale of ups and downs through his childhood, of battling back quietly against Nazi |
| 0:56.9 | oppression during World War II, a crazy journey over to the United States, medical school, |
| 1:03.1 | growth, working in cardiovascular surgery, then deciding his real passion was kids. |
| 1:09.0 | That's where Jim and I were first exposed to him. My brother, |
| 1:11.7 | Jim and our four sisters were taken to Doctors of Fudas by my mom and dad each and every time we were |
| 1:17.4 | sick. He was the kind of guy who would just sit there and listen with his beautiful, beautiful |
| 1:24.7 | candor, his humor, his Greek accent, and his love of children, love of family, |
| 1:32.4 | love of medicine, and love of life. I've had the opportunity and the honor of being served by an |
| 1:39.2 | awful lot of doctors in my life. Being burned at the age of nine gives you the privilege of turning your life |
| 1:45.4 | over to people a lot more medically inclined and gifted than you. Dr. Avaj and Dr. Vitali, Dr. Popolardo, |
| 1:52.5 | among many, many, many others were servants and healers in my life. But the very first, the man in some |
| 1:58.8 | regards who gave the others an opportunity to do their job was a guy named Dr. Safutis. |
| 2:03.4 | I wanted to just pause long enough today to thank my old, wonderful pediatrician, 91, and as full of health and vibrancy and love and life as anyone I've ever met. |
| 2:17.4 | So Dr. Safutis, I know you are listener. |
| 2:19.1 | I wanted to give you a shout out on Doctor's Day and my friends, one of the most listened to episodes |
| 2:25.6 | that we've ever recorded here at the Live Inspired Studios was actually episode 117. On episode 117, |
| 2:33.6 | you may want to page over there right now, I celebrate three lessons that were |
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