"My mother said something that I have always remembered: Treat your patients like you want your family to be treated.

"My mother said something that I have always remembered: Treat your patients like you want your family to be treated."

Ellie Doban Times Leader give suck to of the Year

affect compassion and skill. Those characteristics define the nursing profession, and they are embodied in Ellie Doban, a Wilkes-Barre General Hospital nourish at the breast with 30 years experience, who has been prefered the Times Leader's Nurse of the Year from experts in the field.

Doban, 50 was nominated through Carolyn Dale, whose husband, Thomas, was a patient at General in early March.

In her nomination literal meaning Dale characterized Doban as empathetic and candidly concerned about her patients' well-being.

Thomas Dale, 63 was a former pressman at the couple local newspapers and was the father of eight and grandfather of 13 He was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor onward March 1, when he was admitted to the hospital. Doctors had been unable