Despite her 85 years, Sr. Katherine Seibert, M.D., ’67 M.S., ’73 PhD continues to practice medicine in a public health crisis, embodying a compassion that is grounded in her calling to serve the most needy in society. An oncologist, internal medicine practitioner, and recipient of the 2018 Tom Dooley Award, Dr. Seibert — until her office recently closed — spent two days a week at Hudson River HealthCare in New York, an area now regarded as the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. A stay-at-home order still cannot stop Dr. Seibert, as she continues to see patients by telemedicine. Read more about Dr. Seibert's call to serve compassionately here.
"At the time, the idea [that Dr. Seibert] would hold herself back for fear of infection was far from her mind. She thought of that line from The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: “It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” The most valuable things in life cannot be seen, only felt.
'Tomorrow I’m going to the office knowing that the virus can kill me,” [Dr. Seibert] said then, “but I’m seeing rightly. You see the need and you do it.'"
https://weare.nd.edu/stories/seeing-rightly/
"At the time, the idea [that Dr. Seibert] would hold herself back for fear of infection was far from her mind. She thought of that line from The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: “It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” The most valuable things in life cannot be seen, only felt.
'Tomorrow I’m going to the office knowing that the virus can kill me,” [Dr. Seibert] said then, “but I’m seeing rightly. You see the need and you do it.'"
https://weare.nd.edu/stories/seeing-rightly/