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A curated library for Christian faith and the practice of medicine.

  • Health-seeking behavior is not death prevention; it is life enhancement.— Margaret E. Mohrmann, Medicine as Ministry
  • The physician's basic pledge is not to cure, but to care .— Stanley Hauerwas, Why Medicine Needs the Church
  • Medicine is there to restore what can be restored of health so that the person can continue to seek the fullness of life.— Farr Curlin, How Shall We Then Practice
  • Health can never be anything other than a secondary good.— Margaret E. Morhmann, Medicine as Ministry
  • Along with all creation, medicine will ultimately be redeemed in the age to come. In the in-between time, it is our task to happily participate in God’s work.— Farr Curlin, How Shall We Then Practice
  • A doctor needs to convey the idea that 'I will always, always be there. I will be with you through the end. I will never abandon you.'— Abraham Verghese, Human Touch is Integral to the Art of Medicine
  • Health care, in the final analysis, is not about results... Health care is about being there with people in their finitude and doubt, in their pain and uncertainty.— Daniel P. Sulmasy The Healer's Calling
  • To be healthy is literally to be whole; to heal is to make whole.— Wendell Berry, Health is Membership
  • When people become illnesses all sorts of unpleasant things can happen. You don't listen to or respect illnesses, but you do persons.— John Swinton, Interview with NorthPark University
  • Christian ethics is personal; it is within that personal context that we must accomplish our tasks of ministry and healing.— Margaret E. Mohrmann, Medicine as Ministry
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