title: The gift of compassion.
abstract: Christmas Day in a hospital is always different from Christmas Day anywhere else. For one thing, there is a sense of isolation; family and friends are elsewhere and every patient who can be discharged, even temporarily, leaves for the day.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Snow
mesh_terms: D000059:Accidents; D000328:Adult; D004645:Empathy; D006693:Holidays; D006801:Humans; D008132:Loneliness; D008297:Male; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D013338:Students, Nursing