AMEN 2010: Christ - Patient Restorer

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Adventist Medical Evangelism Network (AMEN)

AMEN 2010 Breakout Seminars

Louis Torres

Short Patient Contacts with Lasting Impacts - Part 1

Roby Angelina Sherman

Useful Complementary Remedies - Part 1

Chester Clark

Restoring Dental Patients to Optimum Health

Brian Schwartz

Why is the New England Journal of Medicine Publishing on Prayer?

Short Patient Contacts with Lasting Impacts - Part 2

Useful Complementary Remedies - Part 2

Short Patient Contacts with Lasting Impacts - Part 3

Tim Howe

Changing Behavior in the Clinic Setting

David Otis

Maximizing the Silent Messengers in Your Office

Wendell Heidinger

The Lost Element of Whole Person Care

Carlos Moretta

The Role of the Health Care Provider in Disaster Relief

Tim Riesenberger

Whole Person Care in the Emergency Room

Tim Arnott

Marijuana: “Herb for the Service of Man”?

That wasn't the topic you were given, but the topic you were given had something to do with about the entering wedge and changing.

The entering wedge, I think, has to do with the right arm for the gospel.

And so I thought, well, let's just change the title.

And changing behavior in the clinic setting.

How many of you here are in primary care medicine?

All Right, so you know what I've put up with for the last 21 years.

For 21 years, I've been in Brunswick, Maine, and I've been a general internist, which means I see patients in my office like most of you do, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and then a half a day Friday.

And Thursday, I do other things like visit.

Okay, or I can talk louder, whichever you prefer.

Or I can do both, if you're hard of hearing, I don't know.

As I was saying, for the last 21 years I've practiced in Brunswick, Maine, and today is like a warm summer day in Maine.

I was on a plane going to Maine before I decided to move there and I sat by a Mainer who, now can you hear me better?

Okay, well we can do lots of things here.

I don't want audio-verse to feel cheated, so I'll put theirs up.

I was flying in, and I talked to the guy.

I said, tell me what summers are like in Maine.

He said, well, last summer was absolutely gorgeous.

You can't believe what a beautiful summer we had.

The trouble that we have in primary care medicine is we've got 10 to 15 minutes, right?

That's what you've got to interface with the patient.

How are you ever going to change behavior in 10 to 15 minutes?

Well, As I often do, I ask several people here, what they would recommend.

And the most common answer that I got was, you need to pray for the right patients.

And I would submit to you that that is an answer, but it's not the right answer.

So with that in mind, let's begin with a word of prayer.

Our Father, we are thankful to be together on this beautiful day.

We pray that you will be among us today, that you will minister to us, that we may see things clearly.

The first statement on the handout is as follows.

When it comes to health, you have to buy it to sell it.

Now in real estate that's not true, right?

But when it comes to health, you have to buy it to sell it.

Modeling a healthy lifestyle is the best sales pitch.

It's really difficult to tell my patients to lose weight when I need to.

Now, if I've struggled with that, that's even better because I'm right along with them.

And my patients look at me and they say, yeah, but you don't understand.

And I say, Well, what you don't know is my brother weighs 260 pounds, or he did.

And you know, the smell of food, I can gain weight on the smell of food.

I mean, you can smell it, especially certain types of food, you just gain weight.

Every change for the better is a gift from God.

And you know that from the text, every good and perfect gift cometh down from the Father of lights or Father above.

Ministry of Healing has a similar paragraph here or 1 that tells us the same thing.

We usually read this paragraph, and this is on page 143 of Ministry of Healing, Christ's Method Alone, we know all that.

It is only through the grace of Christ that the work of restoration, physical, mental, and spiritual can be accomplished.

So when I say, well, I have to pray for the right patient, That isn't the answer, is it?

Change for the better without God may bring evil instead of good.

And the text there is Christ talking to the Pharisees.

He said, you compass land and sea to make 1 convert and you make them twice the son of hell they were before.

Have you seen the health message make someone harder?

They're stronger, they feel better, and so they sin harder.

Change for the wrong reason can be good, but remember taking credit for the change that God gives will always bring evil.

And you know it's so easy as physicians, you know the patients come in, thank you doctor, and you say well you know I am very skilled.

No, no, God is the only, it is the grace of Christ alone that brings restoration.

And I think this is so important when you're in that room with that patient.

How much time does God need to change a life?

Well, a lifetime, but he can change the direction like that, can't he?

And God said, well, this is going to take me a long time.

And if that's what we're working with, then when we're in the clinic, who do we depend on?

Pray for, and whenever possible with your patients, encouraging them to look to God for help in Making changes for the better.

This is what I often do if I'm talking to a patient, if they're new to me, although I don't have a lot or didn't have a lot of new patients until recently because my practice has been closed for about 20 years.

Most of my patients I've had for 21 years.

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AMEN 2010 Breakout Seminars

Changing Behavior in the Clinic Setting

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