During a recent ice and snow storm, Dr. Amanda Carroll of Mercy Hospital Jefferson baked about 500 chocolate chip cookies to cheer up the staff who were either working there at the time or stuck at the hospital due to travel worries.
Carroll, an obstetrician-gynecologist, took on the baking project during the weekend of Jan. 4-5 when she decided to remain at the Crystal City hospital rather than travel back and forth on treacherous roads to her home in Desloge.
Nancy Dennis, a labor and delivery nurse at the hospital, said she appreciated Carroll’s thoughtfulness…