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Helping People Is Not Enough

August 23, 2013 by David 1 Comment

[This is the second post in a series on becoming a Christian physician. The series began with Do You Want to Be a Doctor?] "Why do you want to work in healthcare?" "I want to help people." This dialogue is the most common conversation people will have about a career in medicine. The way we think about healthcare professionals tends towards the poignant and provocative: heroic paramedics and EMTs in ambulances, austere physicians and pharmacists and lab researchers in crisp white coats, dutiful and deeply … [Read more...] about Helping People Is Not Enough

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Health Care Tagged With: becoming a Christian physician, calling, career, Christian physician, doctor, healthcare, physician, vocation

Do You Want to Be a Doctor?

August 2, 2013 by David Leave a Comment

"I want to be a doctor. How do I do it?" As a teenager, I was very shy and very awkward. Talking to strangers was a painful and anxiety-laden task, and I didn't like to talk to strangers any longer than necessary. So when a pediatrician asked me, at a routine office visit, if I had any questions, I surprised myself by blurting out, "I want to be a doctor. How do I do it?" I had never seen the same pediatrician twice, mainly because most of them were residents-in-training.   This one was caught off-guard by the … [Read more...] about Do You Want to Be a Doctor?

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy Tagged With: becoming a Christian physician, calling, Christian physician, decision making, doctor, Gnosticism, healthcare, physician, vocation

Match Day: On Call

March 15, 2013 by David 1 Comment

Today is Match Day. Today, thousands of medical students across the USA will be given a sealed envelope containing a description of where they will be going for residency. At noon, in every medical school, they will gather to simultaneously open those envelopes. These students have spent months applying and interviewing for various programs. Many will have spent hundreds of dollars and hours on applications, interview suits, travel expenses, and retail therapy in the pursuit of a place to give them the training … [Read more...] about Match Day: On Call

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Health Care Tagged With: healthcare, lent, Match Day

Selection Bias: Statistical Integrity in Christian Community

March 8, 2013 by David Leave a Comment

One day a num ­ber of con ­cerned moth ­ers met with the min ­is ­ter to express their frus ­tra ­tion and anger over the unseemly con ­duct of a par ­tic ­u ­lar boy in Sun ­day School. They did not want their chil ­dren exposed to this child and feared what he rep ­re ­sented. For it seemed that this boy was mod ­el ­ing “bad behav ­ior” – ver ­bal out ­bursts that some ­times involved pro ­fan ­ity, a lack of sen ­si ­tiv ­ity to other children's per ­sonal space (occa ­sion ­ally bit ­ing them when irri ­tated or … [Read more...] about Selection Bias: Statistical Integrity in Christian Community

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Health Care Tagged With: community, disability, healthcare, hospitality, lent, neighbor, statistical honesty

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