Has a doctor ever done something special for you or yours? How best to say thanks to this doctor?

I flew to Seattle three weeks ago when the word was that my 84-year-old mother, in ICU, “probably” would live until I could get there. With her immune system suppressed to help her ITP, she had contracted a particularly virulent form of pneumonia usually only seen in HIV patients.

Her doctor was central to her recovery. He cared enough to find out about her pre-illness lifestyle, which was very healthy and active. (He told us in some cases a patient that age would be allowed to just go.) He cared enough to contact us every single day with a detailed report on her condition, to see us whenever we needed him, to answer all of our questions. He cared enough to bring in a team of specialists including an infectious disease expert, a lung specialist, and later a kidney specialist to deal with issues as necessary.

She is now out the hospital, off oxygen and breathing fine, in a rehabilitation facility with a prognosis for full recovery. I wrote him a thank-you letter expressing our heartfelt thanks as did my sister. He went well beyond the usual level of care and involvement. Is there more that we can do as thanks?