Honor your local provider and join us in the international celebration of
National Doctors’ Day on March 30, 2025
Pay tribute to your favorite doctor by making a gift online today! With your donation of $5 or more, we will deliver a red carnation, the national symbol for Doctors’ Day, to your physician’s Calvert County office informing them that you’ve made a thoughtful tribute in their honor. You may include your own words of appreciation, which we will transpose onto a note card to attach to the red carnation/s. All proceeds from Doctors’ Day gifts will support the Fund for CalvertHealth which enables us to support urgent and timely needs of our community hospital through philanthropy.
History of Doctors' Day
Eudora Brown Almond, the wife of a doctor in Georgia, believed her husband and other physicians deserved more recognition for their hard work and set out to make this idea a reality. The first observed Doctors’ Day occurred on March 30, 1933, exactly 91 years after Dr. Long’s remarkable discovery.
Almond mailed greeting cards to all local physicians and their wives, and she put flowers on the graves of deceased doctors, including Dr. Long. The flowers were red carnations, which would later become the representative flower for the national holiday. A few other local doctors’ wives even assisted Almond in preparing a celebratory luncheon so their husbands’ work in healthcare could be publicly appreciated.
The tradition of delivering greeting cards to physicians has continued throughout the years and is still a common way of celebrating this holiday today. The red carnation is also still popularly used to say “thank you” to doctors for their work in medicine.
Doctors’ Day was unofficially celebrated for many years before it became a legal holiday. On March 30, 1958, the U.S. House of Representatives adopted a resolution that commemorates Doctors’ Day and on October 30, 1990, George W. Bush signed the legislature after approval from both the House and the Senate.
