A curated library for Christian faith and the practice of medicine.
The physician's basic pledge is not to cure, but to care .— Stanley Hauerwas, Why Medicine Needs the Church
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
Just as you should not to attempt to cure the eyes without curing the head, or the head without the body, neither should you attempt to cure the body without the soul.— Plato, Charmides
One might well ask whether we desire to live in order to live healthily and well, or whether we desire to be healthy and virtuous merely in order to stay alive.— Leon Kass, Regarding the End of Medicine and the Pursuit of Health
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
Abortion is not a question about the law, but about what kind of people we are to be as the church and as Christians.— Stanley Hauerwas Abortion, Theologically Understood
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
Health-seeking behavior is not death prevention; it is life enhancement.— Margaret E. Mohrmann, Medicine as Ministry
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
