On Valentine’s Day (Feb. 14), students, residents, staff and faculty at Tulane Medical Center took time to visit with patients and share a heartfelt greeting. Patient Harriet Nicholson, right, enjoys her visit with intern Dr. Whitni Milton.

The event, a national Solidarity Day sponsored by the Tulane chapter of the Gold Humanism Honor Society, encouraged everyone working at the hospital to spend nonmedical time visiting with patients, an activity the society says “can have a profound effect on his or her well-being.”