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Encountering God in the Liminality of Graduate School, Part 2

June 23, 2017 by Scott Santibanez No Comments

It was 1991, during the summer between my first and second years of medical school. I was in the basement of a Christian clinic in Times Square. The clinic provided free medical care for homeless people in New York City. I was filling up a tub with warm soapy water so one of our homeless clients could soak his feet.

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Filed Under: Christian Thought and Practice, Transitions Tagged With: aids, graduate school, liminal space, listening, medical school, New York City, transitions

Do Doctors Make Bank?

May 24, 2013 by David No Comments

Summer had finally emerged and we were sitting out on my front steps, enjoying the afternoon heat and watching some of the other kids play out on the street.  Some of the teenagers were casually tossing a football around, throwing it high and watching it bounce among the electrical wires, tree branches, and car windows […]

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Filed Under: Christ, Christ and the Academy, Health Care Tagged With: cost of higher education, impoverished neighborhood, income, making bank, medical school, parents, physician, rich

Rituals of Annotation

March 1, 2013 by David No Comments

I am not exactly sure of what prompted me to do it, but I began keep­ing a tally of all the pro­nounce­ments I have done. A pronouncement is that act in which a doctor officially declares a person to be dead. Some deaths are theatric spec­tac­les involving beep­ing mon­i­tors, electric shocks, and crack­ing chest car­ti­lage. […]

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Health Care Tagged With: death, lent, medical school, official prouncement, redemptive healthcare, resurrection

The Pursuit of Suffering

February 15, 2013 by David No Comments

I watched the grainy, blocky video in silence. My friend was singing “Land­slide” and I felt a cer­tain taut­ness in my eye­brows and a pecu­liar heavi­ness in the cor­ners of my mouth. By now it had become a famil­iar feel­ing, this phys­i­cal expres­sion of sorrow. Can the child within my heart rise above Can I sail […]

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Health Care Tagged With: death, Fleetwood Mac, henri nouwen, lent, leukemia, medical school, Philip Bliss, redemptive healthcare, resurrection, sickness, Suffering

Introductions: Dissection of body and soul

February 1, 2013 by David 1 Comment

Medical school is mostly boring and the parts that are not are often tragic, which is why few people write about the experience.  Prospects facing newly-minted residents and attendings are not much better, as the overwhelming secularization of a discipline once seen as divine has fueled financial exploitation, divisive politics, and increasing frustration, cynicism, and […]

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Health Care Tagged With: anatomy lab, cadaver, death, lent, medical ethics, medical school, redemptive healthcare, resurrection

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