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What comes to mind when you think of a mentor? Perhaps you think of Dumbledore or Yoda or, if you are old like me, Mr Miyagi from the Karate Kid (still one of the greatest films around!). I want to suggest that mentoring is a hugely helpful and perhaps essential...
Twelve people gathering for twelve months to grow in faith as applied to medicine? That's the dream, and for the fifth year our Deep:ER Fellowship programme kicked off in early September. We are joined by a dynamic group of intercalating medical students and F3 doctors. They will be carrying out a...
'If you could see God do one thing in your region, what would that be?' Such was the opening question to 60 nurses, midwives, allied health professionals and medics gathered on Zoom for our first online Catalyst Teams Training on Saturday 5 September. We now have 14 Catalyst Teams...
John Greenall is CMF Associate CEO and a paediatrician in Bedfordshire I was the only Christian on my fourth year paediatrics rotation. In fact, ditto for psych and care of the elderly. Neuro was different; two of my friends from church were there, but they didn't seem to take their faith...
It's the early hours of the morning, and I'm standing in a cholera camp looking at the scene around me. There are people everywhere - on beds, on benches, on the floor, even lying in wheelbarrows. Sunken eyes look up at me as I look at the line of IV...
Nurses on the Paediatric Assessment Unit where I work love it when I'm in a decisive mood. Are we admitting or discharging? Discharge! Do we stretch the inhalers or not? Stretch to four hours! Two sugars or one? (No... I'm joking. I'm the one who makes tea for the team...
In the summer of AD 386, a young man lay weeping under a fig tree in a Milanese garden. Tormented by his failure to overcome his sinfulness, he cried out to God: 'Will you be angry forever?' Suddenly he heard a child's voice, chanting. 'Take and read; take and read.'...
As you embark on several years of study, you will spend most of your waking hours engaged in writing, reading, revising, placements and lectures. And yet we rarely hear a sermon on work. So here are four things for you to take into your studies: your work doesn't define you...
Sitting down to write an article on power, I must admit my thoughts drifted to the Marvel franchise and films like them. My favourite superpower? No, not X-ray vision ? I'd like to fly. But seriously, have you attended a lecture on power? Or heard a sermon on the topic?...
My respiratory placement was probably the scariest of medical school. I dreaded Tuesday mornings when the esteemed Prof would take us around the respiratory ward. 'So, Greenall, what did you learn from your reading on psittacosis that I set you last week?' My answer, lacking in any scientific knowledge and...
