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

  • Only health professionals who are grateful can be joyful. To be joyful is to be attentive to the profound meaning of the privilege or serving the sick and to be grateful for that privilege.— Daniel P. Sulmasy, The Healer's Calling
  • 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
  • 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
  • Person-centered care isn't really a method. It's just a way of being with people. Within healthcare systems we can become quite task-oriented and instrumental in our practices. The idea of person-centered care is simply a way of drawing our attention back to the centrality of the person.— 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
  • 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-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
  • Health is to be sought in and for God, not instead of God.— Margaret E. Mohrmann, Medicine as Ministry
  • To be healthy is literally to be whole; to heal is to make whole.— Wendell Berry, Health is Membership
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