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The Compassionate Physician
"The good physician treats the disease. The great physician treats the patient who has the disease." – William Osler, M.D. (left,1849-1919) Dr. Osler’s famous quote distinguishing the great physicians from the good speaks volumes about the role of compassion.… Continue reading
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Expectation
In any case, our daughter is about to begin what will likely be the most important caregiving role of her life. So much of caregiving is modeled on the example of mother’s love Continue reading
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What Interests Us: The Static & Kinetic
What encounters in life truly arrest our attention? What do we experience so intensely that we are drawn into relationship with the person or thing in that moment? Continue reading
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Immaculate Immaculee
Genocide is the fruit of hatred. -Immaculee Illabagiza Each member of the coat-and-tied, finely dressed crowd was wondering the same thing about the speaker: could they have endured what she did? All of us wanted to think that… Continue reading
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Recognizing Value
On Monday evenings, my wife and I often watch a program on PBS called Antiques Roadshow. Folks bring in stuff from the attic, things they’ve found along the road, items purchased at garage sales or passed down from relatives… Continue reading
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A Post Christian Era?
The idea that we may be living in a post-Christian era is startling to some, a news bulletin to others. But the evidence is mounting that some of the older forms of Christians expression are moribund. The Catholic Church, riven… Continue reading
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Memory
(The following entry was written by Cathy Self, Sr. V.P. of the Baptist Healing Trust) “…I do not want any one to read my book carelessly. I have suffered too much grief in setting down these memories. Six years have… Continue reading
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Halloween & Reformation Day
The anniversary I now like to honor on this date is Reformation Day, which began October 31, 1517 when Martin Luther posted his 95 theses on the door of Wittenberg Cathedral calling for reforms and an end to abuses in… Continue reading
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A CEO Summit on Loving Care
CEOs from America’s Healing Hospitals met in Nashville Monday to talk about a single subject: Loving Care. It is a select group. Their numbers are all too few. Every CEO in the country should be discussing the same subject. … Continue reading
Journal of Sacred Work 