But then, that's kind of an essential quality of all great hacks, isn't it? They all look straightforward and simple when they're finished.
I think it's easy to underestimate this. How many times do we hear of something like this. Not often. Most people play the cards they're dealt. He printed a new deck for this girl. This guy is the my-hero type of awesome.
What I think is the interesting part of this is that he did not say: 'not my job' or (more likely) 'I wish that this was someone's job' or ' 'I wish we could do something.' He said 'what needs to be done.
Not to devalue the doctor's work though. He did save someone's life.