A Doctor Saved Her Life When She Was 9 – Now They Work Together

When 9-year-old Tae Butler was facing cancer treatments at UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital, her physician Dr. Ted Moore surprised her with a gift that changed her life. “He gave me my first stethoscope,” says Tae, who endured grueling four- to six-week hospital stays after being diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, a blood and bone marrow cancer. The gift and the care behind it helped Tae cope with the pain. “He taught me how to use the stethoscope to listen to the heart,” she says. “Instead

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