Description
Dr. Moreau made house calls long after everyone else in the district had stopped. Up the hill through the snow, out to the farms at harvest time, his bag swinging at his side; the children of the village were convinced it held everything from lollipops to miracles, and he never said otherwise. He knew every family by name, every dog by temperament, and every child by the state of their knees.
When his granddaughter graduated from medical school, the family gave her this porcelain doctor’s bag, and inside she found a miniature stethoscope, just like the one he used to warm in his hands before listening to a patient’s heart. She keeps it on her desk at the clinic, where it reminds her, on the longest days, why she chose this work. It is a meaningful gift for a new doctor or nurse, a retiring physician, a medical student passing exams, or anyone whose care has made all the difference.
The details
- Shaped like a doctor’s bag
- Opens to reveal a miniature stethoscope inside
- Created by Rochard
- Bag and stethoscope painted by hand, Limoges porcelain of France
Present it at a white coat ceremony, a graduation, a retirement party or on National Doctors’ Day. It’s a small thank-you with a very big meaning, and it will sit proudly on a consulting-room shelf beside the diplomas for many years.
