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Open Forum
As an experiment today, I would like to invite readers to offer comments on whatever issue they find of interest in caregiving. Continue reading
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Altered States
Language reflects how we think toward ourselves and others. It can also have an enormous impact on our physical state. This effect is dramatically under-appreciated. Continue reading
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Gifts
To revel in God’s Love, we need to recognize and accept our role to manifest that Love through the gifts we have been given. Love comes through us, not from us. As we engage our gifts for the good of… Continue reading
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Friday’s Guest Reflection
I say I believe in the possibility and reality of healing and yet am awed and honestly quite often surprised when I see evidence of its occurring. When the patient leaves our care, uncured of the cancer that brought him… Continue reading
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Learning Love
Lots of people spend lots of energy trying to crush our ability to dance. I am glad to have learned the song of love from a kind woman, to know the memory of water wrung from a wash cloth and… Continue reading
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Strangers
Ultimately, the answer lies with each individual doctor and every other caregiver. The more medicine is driven by science and business, the more the practice becomes a transactional process and the greater the “burnout” factor. It’s enobling to be a… Continue reading
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Two Earthshaping Developments
We have been blessed with human life and the ability to choose who we will live our lives. The goal of science is to serve us, not to overpower us. And our goal is simply (and complexly) this: to serve,… Continue reading
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Our Why – Bricklayers & Caregivers
Loving cultures are contagious. Baptist Hospital partner Lois Powers exemplifies the energy of this contagion. When I complimented her on her great work as a cashier, she said to me, “I’m not a cashier, I’m a caregiver!” Lois was no… Continue reading
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A Physician’s Meditation – Healing Waters
For those inside the church, this message is strange but familiar. And yet, outside the walls of the church, we are so prone to forget it. Thankfully, as Juan was to Betty, so Betty has been to me and to… Continue reading
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Guest Meditation – Developing a Loving Consciousness – Gary Vacca
Our life and work is not just about what we do but who we are, our “beingness.” The Spiritual principle involved here is this: Who we believe ourselves to be determines what we can do, our behaviors and quality of… Continue reading