AMEN in Challenging Conversations: Bridging the Gaps Between Faith, Hope, and Medicine

Faith, Hope and Doubt

The elements of medicine: faith, hope and credence.

till I have worked up my patients into a confidence bordering upon certainty, of their probable good effects.” William Osler, the most prominent physician of the 20th Century, remarked: “Faith in us, faith in our drugs and methods, is the great stock in trade of the profession.” In Osler’s iconic textbook (which has guided medical students for over four generations), he said that three factors ...

Faith, hope and love

Than it started – first surgery, then chemotherapy, then radiation, and all over again for several times. Although I was only 11, my mum and my dad explained to me what was going to happen, why my mum needed to remove her breast, why she was going to loose her hair, and why she might be sad from time to time. At first it was OK to deal with it because I was a kid and kids see everything with a ...

Respiratory medicine--challenging times, hope for the future.

The Lancet today is dedicated to respiratory medicine ahead of the 2012 European Respiratory Society (ERS) annual congress in Vienna, Austria, on Sept 1–5. An ageing population, poor smoking cessation rates, and environmental factors such as air pollution mean that the global burden of respiratory disease is set to increase: the European Lung Foundation estimates that, in 2020, 11·9 million of ...

the relationship between learners critical thinking ability and their performance in the reading sections of the tofel and ielts test

the study reflected in this thesis aims at finding out relationships between critical thinking (ct), and the reading sections of tofel and ielts tests. the study tries to find any relationships between the ct ability of students and their performance on reading tests of tofel and academic ielts. however, no research has ever been conducted to investigate the relationship between ct and the read...