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In Its Time

September 27, 2013 by David No Comments

[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 […]

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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 […]

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Do You Want to Be a Doctor?

August 2, 2013 by David No Comments

“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 […]

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

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

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