"If not, then where did your desire, talents, skills,
and ability to learn and apply these attributes come from?"
If your religious background wasn't included as one of the requirements for applying to medical school, then most applicants would consider it wasn't important enough, if at all. And if we ask ourselves whether our personal religious beliefs influenced our choice to become a physician and how much influence it has on how we actually perform in our interactions with all medical patients we encounter in our practices, it helps you to think about that issue.
There is no "maybe" answer to the question because from our birth we have a sense that a God must exist, whether we believe or not. Even atheists have great difficulty denying all of the evidence for the presence of a God in our universe. The only problem is which God do you submit to? The Egyptians, Romans, and Greeks in Biblical times worshiped many Gods.
Practicing medicine is nothing more than taking on the obligations and responsibilities of saving lives, making the sich well again, repairing the damages to the human body, and enabling all medical patients to live better, continue to find new opportunities, and have a chance to be happy and lover their lives for a much longer period of time. Doesn't that all sound like in a big way what Christ did while alive and living on this earth?
Christ, the worldly physician from a heavens, demonstrated the extent to which every earthly physician should strive to reach their ultimate potential while applying their medical knowledge and training daily for the benefit of all mankind. Our medical profession is by far the most elite and honorable profession on this earth. Although farming comes close.
Why then do most medial schools in our nation continue to seek to disconnect medical students from the God, and ageless supreme physician who before their conception appointed each of them to their purpose in life as a physician. Of course, some go for years wondering what they should do in life and then suddenly make the decision.
At the same time He instilled their talents, skills, and passions for a medial career that would later enable them to become physicians.
One of the medical students in my class was two weeks short of beginning his engineering career when he joined our class. Another had spent ten years in the US State Department, then joined our class. Both wondered about a career in medicine but waited for the perfect time to make the decision. That kind of decision making was not a guess or gamble. It came from somewhere.
Medical schools continue to disregard their obligation to every medical student to support every physician's skills, accomplishments, and desires in their medical careers that are attributed to them by God. When did you leave your church and belief?
One can easily manufacture the many possible reasons for their reactions...
- The medical scholars who establish the medical school curriculums are not believers in God and His management of all humanity--or they are atheists.
2. Medical scholars recognize that physicians are derived from multiple and different religions,
backgrounds and religious beliefs.
What would happen if all US medical schools required applicants to at least be knowledgeable about Christianity, among others. After all, our nation and constitution were created around Christian beliefs to begin with. These contrary mixtures of religions and backgrounds directly creates problems with patients and with other American physicians.
Our solid backup of American physicians has become so diluted by outsiders that our healthcare is disintegrating in quality and services. Our nation was once recognized as the highest level of medical care in the world. It's debatable today.
What if a physician's medical competence results from a supernatural
heavenly "push"...
Are we supposed to believe that surgeons never stop to think before starting a major surgical procedure, that their competence did not originate in their own minds, that their skills were not self-created, that their intelligence came from schooling , education, and knowledge that
they accumulated?
If that's true, then all physicians would be able to do all surgical procedures simply by mentally concentrating, grab the right instruments and knew how to use them, and complete the procedure, even when they were never in an operating room before or never had been taught how. But we know that is not true.
How could you possibly know, without guessing, that you, when it came to choosing a specialty, knew you "wanted to do surgery." Why? How did you know that even before you picked up a scalpel? Some equate that issue to one's own feeling about what it is that you seem to get the greatest joy from doing for benefiting your patients.
If you have discovered that you are not enamoured so much about the diagnosis as you are about the fact that surgically you can to least cure a lot of a patient's medical problems/diseases, or at least reduce the patients problems to a more tolerable level rapidly in the OR. So, you like surgery of one type or another. But, which one?
If you are a medical student or a physician already, and you recognize that your greatest interest and fulfillment results from diagnosing health and disease problems. And that you find treating patients for prolonged periods of time while seeing the results of your treatments along the way is a real joy to you for one of many reasons. And that are hard to explain to anyone exactly what it is that makes your work a beautiful thing to behold.
So now you look back and you know that you made the right choice for your career. You went on to train in the specialty of Internal Medicine that exactly matched your instincts and desires.
This bit of stretching your mind in order to make the right choices the first time and then never having to change your specialty later, which unexplainably happens to the great majority of all physicians, is at a far higher level of circumstance than one can explain. It is a supernatural aspect of our minds that we often neglect to appreciate when it's quiet and you're alone.
Most of us recognize later while we are in the intensity of our specialty practice, that we made the right choice for the second time in a row. Imagine that? However, a very few of us discover we made a bad decision after all. The saving grace of that commonly can be managed by one of several means. Even that barrier most often can be overcome.
In my situation, I was nudged into stopping the Obstetrics part of my practice as the medical malpractice cases in California, resulting from childbirth delivery injuries to the baby, drove jury verdicts and settlements well above a million dollars. It was a wild ride for physicians who delivered babies whose injuries were somehow all caused by some form of the Obstetrician's mismanagement of the delivery and not by other causes.
The consequences of that situation did not end with the jury verdict. The California Medical Board was quick to restrict medical licenses, force Obstetricians to go back and take the OBG residency training over again, or let a legal court judge make the punishment of the doctor a major part of the Board's demands. At the same time, there had never been a lay midwife baby injury that ever resulted in a malpractice case in California--regardless of baby injury or death.
The other means for physicians bypassing areas of medical practice they either disliked with a passion or that they realized they were not competent enough to continue treating those patients with those problems, enabled physicians to focus on the areas of the specialty they liked to treat and stay in the specialty. They just narrowed down their focus. If a physician is unable to choose a specialty and remains in limbo, it is not difficult to choose a specialty that has many branches to choose from.
When you experience these unexplainable happenings in your medical career, are you arrogant enough to believe that you actually have the capability for arranging your life and career in such a consistent and productive manner? Or have you gone through a double-header of enlightenment that you won't share with others?
Comments:
The great majority of the world population subscribe to some form of religious belief. Why? One can assume that as human beings we are all endowed with the subconscious impetus to seek out some form of religious entity, leader, or belief, that there has to be an origin and a creator of this world and the universe. Otherwise, we would all be atheists.
We also have seen an explosion of human accomplishments, inventions, principles, and knowledge that was not there 4,000 years ago that we know of. Buried in the minds of this earthly population are billions of new ideas, new knowledge, new potential, and new talents and skills. Why are we all different from each other? There must be a reason. If there is a reason, then some entity made that possible. That entity is called God in the Christian community.
To connect with God, a person must believe that God exists somewhere, in some supernatural environment that is in a different dimension. If good things happen to us that are beyond our imagination, have no explanation, and yet enables us to do seemingly impossible things as our nations evolve, we certainly are attracted to a God. Some invisible being is helping all humanity on a continuing basis, otherwise we would never evolve, learn, think deeply, or plan anything.
The one thing that is different about the Christian God is that he was alive and walked on this earth, performed medical and other miracles, captured the minds of innumerable people, and asked for nothing in return, except to believe in him and his power to do good and show humans how to live their lives to their maximum benefit. The remarkable aspect of all this is that it has all been documented in history, in the Bible, and by the witnesses who were disciples of his work who lived, walked, and talked with him--Called Jesus Christ.
Christ is the ultimate example of a worldly physician. All physicians have an obligation to not only hold God in esteem but also to keep in our minds every day that he is the one who enabled our talents, skills, intelligence, and desires to become physicians and to serve our medical patients to our greatest ability using the attributes He provided us at our instant of conception.
At the same time, He placed our souls in the embryo and initiated our life spirit.
If a physician decided not to do abortions in this present world of ours, and believed in what I described above, then a physician would understand that true life spirit is present at the moment of conception, not at six weeks when the fetal heartbeat shows up on the ultrasound exam. And not at seven months or so, when fetal viability is reached.
This is a such a realistic view, yet debatable. Being able to see the fetal heart beating at about 6 weeks means that the heart began functioning and growing over the previous 6 weeks to reach the point where technically it can be documented on ultrasound. As soon as our medical technology becomes better, the heartbeat may be seen far earlier in time—perhaps at the day after conception? Who knows what the future holds?
Clearly, the degree of your success in your medical career with your private medical practice business is due to your own efforts, but to your understanding that each thing you do within your profession and medical practice in your medical career has been enabled by God himself.
So, when you ask yourself where your talents and skills came from, you know where and who is responsible.
Do you believe that you were born with a specific purpose in life? Isn’t it interesting that the balance of all people’s purposes in their lives and in our populations seem directly proportional, for example, to the numbers of physicians necessary to meet the needs of our populations and in each country in the world?
We have enough schoolteachers to teach our children. There are enough carpenters to build our homes. And there are enough soldiers to protect our nation. These factors vary but seem to level out over time somehow so that the proportions settle at the proper level.
----Professional Probe----
Dr. Graham and his patient--1975
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