- Luna: Hi, I grew up at New Amsterdam. My mother died in this hospital. My father spent every waking second here, breaking the system so he could put it back together again, better and stronger than before. Doing whatever he could to help his patients. I remember my father's last day as medical director. He was supposed to take me to this Mermaid Parade, just a special day with my dad. But then he got called in to help with an impossible surgery. And I was so mad. I thought, this place has taken my father away from me yet again. But then, over the course of the day, I saw how hard he worked to save one life, and how hard everybody worked together. And that's when I realized that New Amsterdam didn't take my father away from me. This hospital gave me my father. Showed me who he was, who I could be. And that's the day I realized I wanted to be just like him. It was the day I knew I wanted to be a doctor. So I wanted to start by asking all of you the same thing my father asked his staff every hour of every single day: How can I help?