The patient’s name was George, and physically he was doing very poorly. He had no family and very little money. If not for the hospice team, he would have spent almost all of his time by himself.

One day, his social worker happened to visit when George was home listening to the radio. They were talking when a song by Tina Turner happened to come on. She had a concert tour coming up in Cincinnati, and the station was playing her music to help publicize it.

George smiled the song, and suddenly remarked how much he enjoyed Tina Turner’s music. He’d gone to see her once long ago, when he was younger. He thought she was great, he said.

The social worker didn’t waste a lot of time. She went out and bought two tickets for herself and her patient to see the concert. She arranged everything - picked him up, took him there, made it a real night out. But she also called the concert organizers beforehand, to tell them that a dying patient would be in the audience that night, and that one of his last wishes was to see the show.

That night, in the middle of the concert, Tina Turner came downstage, picked him out of the crowd, and announced, “This one’s for you, George.”

George never stopped talking about it till the day he died.