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As a young man, Tom started a business that grew into a successful enterprise. His competence and character meshed, resulting in an outstanding reputation in his community. Over several years, he saw employees and customers begin a personal relationship with God and grow in their faith. Tom didn't anticipate facing...
Instructions are useful, but examples are more effective. Today's healthcare workers very much need good role models. Oh, for another Florence Nightingale, a Thomas Barnardo or a Mother Teresa. Well, where did their inspiration come from? None other than Jesus Christ. I suggest there can be no greater role model...
Most health professionals know all about tiredness. Long hours and the demands of the job leave all of us exhausted. Here I want to address the issue of spiritual tiredness. Spiritual tiredness is a form of exhaustion in our soul, in our innermost being. Spiritual tiredness is not helped by...
Ironically, the only way that I could find time to a review this book was to take it on holiday, a holiday already marred by planning uncertainties at my NHS work which were going to affect me as soon as I returned. So I sat on my hotel balcony and...
Patients entering hospital experience a variety of emotions and utilise differing coping mechanisms to help them. One such mechanism is the presence of a personal religious faith.[1] Increasingly, it is recognised that faith and hope are valuable adjuncts to the healing process.[2,3] Yet there has not been much research on...
'Doctors warned against preaching to patients' was the headline provoked by the Spring edition of Triple Helix.[1,2] The place of evangelism in doctors' daily work is a sensitive issue and the response was a strong instruction that doctors may not force their beliefs onto patients. 'It is totally inappropriate to...
Richard Scott's article 'Good news in the Surgery' (Triple Helix 2002; Spring: 6-7) prompted an article by Derren Hayes in both Doctor and Hospital Doctor magazines on 2 May 2002. Hayes' 'Working Practices' piece began by saying that the Triple Helix article had prompted the BMA to warn doctors not to...
Christian GPs are aware that health includes a spiritual component. But to what extent should we take some responsibility for our patients’ spiritual welfare? In particular, is it ‘OK’ to talk to our patients in surgery about Jesus? The Bible is quite clear about evangelism. We are told about the...
Unsociable hours joined at the hip to a little black box that regularly bleeps at me! My first few months as a Christian junior doctor have been akin to juggling with slippery balls. Hospitals are funny places. A nurse friend thinks she would be challenged to think of a place...
