David deichman — a former marketing Director in an international company. After retirement he works as a freelance lecturer at several universities, but fame brought him professional success and not even teaching. Hundreds of grateful parents from Atlanta and thousands of social media users across the country know Deichman as «the grandfather of the intensive care unit».
He devotes his free time to the care of babies who were in intensive care without parents. For various reasons, moms and dads of sick and premature babies are unable to carry out with them the whole day: some of them are forced to go to work, and some running home to brothers and sisters of young patients.
In the photo below Dollman shakes Logan, who was born at 25 weeks. When his mother went home, where she had another small child, the soul of the woman was not in place. Returning in the morning and finding son in the hands of an elderly man, she said, «Who are you?»
«I — grandfather of intensive care,» — said deichman with a smile. Now Logan is fine, and his mother is eternally grateful to his assistant.
For age volunteers have been hundreds of such cases. Thanks to him, many children receive much-needed attention and human warmth. Daichman happy nurse and lulls kids. Two days a week he spends in intensive care pediatric and neonatal departments.
After retirement from Deichman had a lot of free time. To occupy him, he began to read lectures in Universities, primarily at Emory University and the Georgia Institute of Technology. However, this was not enough for him.
One day a pensioner came to the hospital with a leg injury. Released after treatment and rehabilitation course, he stopped near the children’s. The man came inside and asked if he could volunteer. The workers gladly accepted his help.
Having teaching experience, daichman first worked in a special school at a medical facility. But he soon realized that his destiny lies elsewhere. Once he met a sobbing woman who had just left the NICU — her child was in a critical condition, but because of the circumstances the mother could not stay with him.
Deichman decided to help — he took the baby and rocked him to make him feel safe. Since then, in the hands of the grandfather of resuscitation slept hundreds of children. Doctors say that the role of the volunteer in their recovery is difficult to overestimate tactile contact is extremely important for newborn and premature patients, contributing to their proper development and recovery of the body.
