By Patti Payne
Puget Sound Business Journal
SEATTLE — Lily James, 13, is wise beyond her years, knowing the meaning of “giving back.” This Mercer Island girl, whose right foot was nearly severed in a boating accident on Lake Washington when she was 7, recently received the national Patient of Courage Award from the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. The annual award includes a $5,000 donation.
She will not buy clothes or a new bicycle with the dollars. Instead, this morning, Lily will give her prize money to the Medic One Foundation, at Harborview Medical Center, during a ceremony in front of the current Medic One paramedic training class.
Thank you, Lily James, for donating $5,000 to the Medic One Paramedic Training Program to fund Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) for future Medic One paramedics! #GivingTuesday
Posted by Medic One Foundation on Tuesday, December 1, 2015
Lily’s foot and lower leg was saved and reattached thanks to the quick actions of former Medic One Medical Director Dr. Michael Copass, who happened to be nearby working in his yard when he heard the screams coming from the lake; Medic One paramedics; and many surgeries at Harborview. “Too many to count,” said her mother Carol James.
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