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Death and Resurrection

He was a young man, and I could see fear in his eyes as he gripped the railings of the bed and struggled to breathe, sucking in heavily through the plastic mask feeding him oxygen. His body was wasting away from cancer, and the infections that had crept into his...

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Do You Want to Be a Doctor?

“I want to be a doctor.  How do I do it?” As a teenager, I was very shy and very awkward.  Talking to strangers was a painful and anxiety-laden task, and I didn’t like to talk to strangers any longer than necessary.  So when a pediatrician asked me, at a...

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Match Day: On Calling

Friday will be Match Day.  On that day, thousands of medical students across the USA will be given a sealed envelope containing a description of where they will be going for residency. At noon, in every medical school, they will gather to simultaneously open those envelopes. These students have spent...

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Selection Bias: Statistical Integrity in Christian Community

Originally a guest post for the Emerging Scholars Network (a ministry of Intervarsity Christian Fellowship):   One day a num­ber of con­cerned moth­ers met with the min­is­ter to express their frus­tra­tion and anger over the unseemly con­duct of a par­tic­u­lar boy in Sun­day School. They did not want their chil­dren...

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Entitlement

One of the most difficult things I’ve struggled with since moving here has been a sense of entitlement.  That word is not one I ever hear from those living here, mainly because it’s never used in a positive context.  It is typically in reference to “handouts to the poor” and...

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Humbler Yet

We were sitting around the peeled and cracking table, chatting late into the night.  It has become a common occurrence in our small dining room to see an eclectic mix of people  perched on different pieces of our patchwork furniture, trading stories and snippets about what it means to believe...