The Transformative Power of Compassion

How a personal tragedy is transformed into something beneficial to others

Tina Workman (middle in white) and her students after a simulation training. Photo courtesy of Tina Workman

On Jan. 16, 1988, 11-year-old Tina Workman was suddenly handed her two-and-a-half-month-old baby sister Abby, who was “not breathing, limp, blue, and lifeless.”

In a blind panic, Workman’s step-mom kept screaming, “Tina, CPR! CPR! CPR!”