Doctor Williams is Upstairs

A doctor who devoted his life to helping underprivileged people had a small office over a liquor store in a poor section of a large city. He lived in the adjoining rooms of that office. In front of the liquor store hung a simple sign that read, “Doctor Williams is Upstairs.”

When he died, he had no relatives and had left no money for burial. He had never asked for payment from anyone he’d ever treated. Friends and patients scraped up just enough to bury the good doctor, but there was no money for a tombstone. It seemed his would be another unmarked grave in a section of unmarked graves until somebody took the sign from the front of the liquor store and nailed it to a post over his grave. It was a wonderful epitaph: “Doctor Williams is Upstairs.”

— Author Unknown