I NEED advice on what gift to buy for a doctor's fellowship graduation.

[raging moderate]

My (almost) daughter-in-law is a young DOCTOR who completed her internship and then went in for a year-long training in surgery that has just earned her a black-tie fellowship graduation ceremony. It is halfway across the country, so we cannot attend the ceremony. But my husband and I grew up VERY poor, and we really have no clue about these things. She will marry my son in September, and they are currently packing up to move to her new job in Houston, Texas. What would be appropriate for us to send to this wonderful young woman?

[Glorfindel]

1. A nice piece of jewelry

A caduceus brooch, perhaps.

[getagrip_already]

2. Find an old greys anatomy text....

Or othery surgery specific reference encyclopedia from around or before ww2.

I have my father's old medical school textbooks from that Era, and young doctors who stop by my house love to read them. There are topics in there they just don't see today, or are covered in a way they never heard of.

Pre-super modern science medicine.

I'm sure they aren't expensive. Every retiring or dying doctor causes these to pop up on ebay.

There probably isn't a huge market for them because most have never seen them.

Just a thought anyway.

[lapucelle]

3. A beautiful pen...

... engraved with the date.