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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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Health can never be anything other than a secondary good.— Margaret E. Morhmann, 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
  • 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
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