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Medical Ministry
essential to your patients and which come within the sphere of your
practice. You can reach a high standard in your practice.
Thinking of Disagreeable Matters
Do not, I beg of you, lay blame on others. You have pondered
over disagreeable matters altogether too much. There are many
things that you do not view in a correct light. Now, cease to think of
disagreeable things; cease to talk of them; fix your mind on Jesus,
your Helper, and work in faith and confidence. By disciplining
yourself you can have greater success than you have ever yet had....
A physician needs to be in daily communion with God, that he
may be a constant channel of light to his patients. He should be an
imitator of the Lord Jesus Christ. While daily conversant with death,
working for those on the verge of the grave, he requires a constant
supply of the grace of God, for there is danger that he will become
indifferent to eternal realities. His only safety is in keeping the Lord
ever before him, his mind constantly under the influence of the Spirit
of God.
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Christian Courtesy and Delicacy
The physician should be governed by a strict sense of propriety
at all times and on all occasions. I speak plainly, because I know that
it is my duty to do this. You cannot be too chaste in your words or
too modest in your examination of patients. Coarseness or indelicacy
in the operating room, or by the bedside of the suffering, is a sin in
the sight of God; and in the minds of the patients it will tell with
power against the physician. Unless he constantly cherishes a strict
sense of propriety, he will unguardedly shock sensitive patients who
are modest and refined.
Above all other men who fill positions of responsibility, the
physician needs to be connected with God, to be taught continually
by Him, else there is danger that, under temptation, he will become
unfaithful, coarse, and profligate. He needs a pure and undefiled
religion. And those who stand as his assistants should be wise and
calm, persons who fear God. You are safe only when connected
with the Source of all power, of all purity and elevation of character.