Good Guy Surgeon
My father was a surgeon. He never turned a case down, and frequently did pro bono work. I worked in his office when I was a teen, filing insurance. One case was a woman who had a lump on her breast and no insurance. Because the lumpectomy was positive, he operated on her, avoiding a radical mastectomy.
On the day of her follow-up, he had been called to the ER. She began to berate him to the staff for being so inconsiderate.
When he came in the office, she saw him through the reception window, yelled at him for wasting her time, and told him she was going to go find another doctor–all in front of the other people in the waiting room and the nurses and staff.
She also said she was reporting him to the medical board, which she did. They investigate every complaint. Hers was that he was “curt” with her and rude. They spent his time on this investigation about a month later.
She stormed out of the office and never returned. He absorbed every fee associated with the case, and still didn’t stop donating his services, which makes me proud to this day. Story credit: Reddit / Unshavenhelga