Mom of three Cassie Baker was touched by the kind act of Dane Pratt, a cardiovascular perfusionist at MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center in Iowa, as she witnessed Pratt reading to her daughter, Parker, who was hooked up to life support, fighting for her life.
Baker captured the moving encounter in a photograph and shared it on Facebook, where it went viral. Pratt is in charge of running the ECMO machines for his young patients, and it turns out he often likes to bring in books to read to them.
