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While the initial surge of popularity faded somewhat, the video of Neufelder’s act of kindness continued to be viewed hundreds of times a day, and it lingered in the memories of those who saw it - including, it turned out, network television producers in New York. I ran into her at the Medical Center North post office a couple of months after the stories aired and she had received a birthday card from a stranger in Singapore that day. When the stories were broadcast, printed and posted online, that meant that even more people knew of Neufelder’s kindness, and before she knew it, the world was reaching out to her. We arranged an interview with WTVF News Channel 5 reporter Matthew Torres, as well as the Washington Post and a few other news outlets. The video was shared around the world, and calls started coming to VUMC’s News and Communication office, where I work, from reporters who wanted to meet and interview Neufelder. “Today” show’s Sheinelle Jones surprises VUMC nurse Olivia Neufelder during the taping of the story. Neufelder, who lives in Nashville but is not an aspiring musician, had learned the words off YouTube at Margaret’s request.
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The video was recorded and posted to social media by Smith’s friend, Crystal Roberts, and shared by, among many others, Smith’s daughter, Megan. In the video, shot on a phone, Neufelder sings “Dancing in the Sky,” a soulful ballad by the duo Dani and Lizzy about life in heaven, to Margaret Smith, a patient with liver cancer who had just learned she wasn’t well enough to receive a liver transplant.
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On May 2, NBC’s “Today” show broadcast part of a series of stories called “Thank a Nurse,” and the featured nurse was VUMC’s Olivia Neufelder - the nurse who was in a viral video last October and who was featured in this story written by Christina Echegaray earlier this year in VUMC Voice.
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Olivia Neufelder is surprised by singing duo Dani and Lizzy on NBC’s “Today” show. Olivia Neufelder, second from left, hugs Dani Nelson of the singing duo Dani and Lizzy, and duo member Lizzy Nelson hugs patient family member Megan Smith, while NBC “Today” host Sheinelle Jones, second from right, and Crystal Roberts look on.