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In Its Time

September 27, 2013 by David Leave a Comment

[The third post in a series on becoming a Christian physician. Earlier posts are  Do You Want to Be a Doctor?  and  Helping People Is Not Enough]. After working 24 hours on call in the pediatric ICU, I was exhausted. I wanted to sleep, but friends had recently been reminding me of the  health benefits of breakfast, so  I dragged myself to a local diner for breakfast and sat at the counter next to a father and his little daughter. "We graduated from the booth to the counter," he was explaining to the waitress, … [Read more...] about In Its Time

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Health Care Tagged With: becoming a Christian physician, breakfast, calling, career, Christian physician, doctor, Eat with Joy, Ecclesiastes, ICU, medical student, NPR, ordinary life, physician, vocation

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