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Science Corner: Dr. Internet, MD

October 19, 2016 by Andy Walsh Leave a Comment

It's 3am. You wake up hot and clammy. A cactus withered and died in your mouth. Joints you never knew you had scream for WD-40. Breathing hurts. Blinking hurts. You can feel your fingernails growing, and that hurts. Did you get the flu? Zika? Are you patient zero for the latest emerging plague? You could go see a doctor, but you're a graduate student with rudimentary health insurance whose coverage documentation you barely skimmed because c'mon, you're young and healthy and you don't plan on getting sick--no, you don't … [Read more...] about Science Corner: Dr. Internet, MD

Filed Under: Science and Faith Tagged With: artificial intelligence, diagnosis, health care, healthcare, medicine, science, science corner

Browning’s “Karshish the Arab Physician”

May 29, 2016 by Mark Hansard Leave a Comment

Mark Hansard shares another exploration of faith in Victorian literature. See previous posts exploring  Browning and faith  and Gerard Manley Hopkins  and how  aesthetic experience can point to God.   … [Read more...] about Browning’s “Karshish the Arab Physician”

Filed Under: Christian Thought and Practice Tagged With: death, German Higher Criticism, healthcare, Karshish the Arab Physician, Lazarus, medicine, poetry, resurrection, Robert Browning, science

Failing Faithfully: Created, Fallen, and Waiting

July 3, 2015 by David 1 Comment

In the first post of this series, I was ruminating  about a patient who had a rapid decline in health and social circumstances, culminating in a recent scan that showed the possibility of cancer even while he was struggling with homelessness. It was a bleak situation that caught me off guard because I was not expecting it and was grieved to think of what it would be like for him to die alone. He has since died. There is a picture and a story making rounds on the internet about the grief of physicians. An EMT … [Read more...] about Failing Faithfully: Created, Fallen, and Waiting

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy Tagged With: Faithful is Successful, healthcare, interviews, medicine

Academic Justice? (Scholar’s Compass)

March 26, 2015 by Brian Dennison Leave a Comment

Memory Verse Seek justice, protect the oppressed, defend the orphan, plead for the widow. Isaiah 1:17 Reflection My wife said it was not going to be easy. I knew she was right. She was referring to my current research. I am interviewing persons with disabilities in Uganda. My wife and I have lived in Uganda since 2008 so we are aware of the challenges people face here. We also know that challenges are especially intense among Ugandans with disabilities. … [Read more...] about Academic Justice? (Scholar’s Compass)

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Scholar's Compass Tagged With: healthcare, justice, lent, Lent 2015, medicine, Navigating Justice, Scholar's Compass

Failing Faithfully: The Futility of Medicine (Scholar’s Compass)

March 10, 2015 by David Leave a Comment

It was stunning news. I listened with disbelief as my colleague described how a patient of ours, in whom we had uncovered a host of serious diseases over a few years, was now newly diagnosed with  cancer after an incidental scan. In addition, his social supports had been eroded and I thought about what it would be like for him to die from a  vicious terminal disease  while  alone and homeless. He would not be the first patient for me to watch die in such a  way. To be a physician is, in many ways, an exercise in … [Read more...] about Failing Faithfully: The Futility of Medicine (Scholar’s Compass)

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Scholar's Compass Tagged With: Christian Health Care Provider, Faithful is Successful, healthcare, medicine, Scholar's Compass

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