DNGILB: Trust me, I'm a doctor.

Though a hospitalist doesn't do surgery... sometimes surgery won't happen until we call for it. That's where couch medicine comes in! From the comfort of your own home, you can peruse approximately 1000 details about your patient in near real-time. Then, telemedicine style, you can be the coach at the sidelines calling the plays! Unfortunately surgeons are not easily swayed. So you have to be persuasive... sometimes getting other opinions to make your case. In any case, last night a patient I had would have died had I not spent nearly 30 minutes on the phone for a total of 8 calls with a nurse and 4 physicians in order to get my patient in the OR, under the knife of a highly skilled surgeon who threw the touchdown pass for the last second victory over a necrotic bowel!!!! Another life saved!! David

Do you ever stop and try to imagine what Jesus must think about what America has done to Christmas??!! Do you think he is pleased with our consumeristic materialism. With people being stressed out trying to prepare huge meals, fight holiday shopping, feeling the disappointment with returned gifts, or pigging out on foods we very well know is advancing our risk of stroke or heart attack?! ALL THE WHILE IGNORING PEOPLE WHO STRUGGLE JUST TO SURVIVE!!! Do something different. Don't blow hundreds or thousands of dollars entertaining yourselves! Give to those less fortunate, and tell them that Jesus loves them!!! The pastor at our church asked all 6 of his kids if they want Christmas presents or would they rather give more money to those who don't have much. His kids, youngest 4, unanimously voted to have NO PRESENTS, instead giving to the poor!!! What are you teaching your kids? To be Christ-like??? or to be like the rest of the world? Don't jump off the cliff just because t

Somehow, men can always find a way to effectively be a buffoon. I was a buffoon. My wife wanted to make me dinner, not just to have food to eat, but to put a lot of thought and effort into it as a form of love. But I couldn't recognize it. I just saw it as food to eat. So, when she said it would cost $40 I told her not to. I ended up being the disciple that tried to chew out the woman who poured perfume on Jesus at the expense of an entire year's wages. Jesus had it right when he corrected the disciple. Sometimes an act of love is a sacrifice... its the sacrifice that makes it an act of love. If you didn't have to sacrifice to give it... it didn't take much love. One thing I love about my wife, is the love that she has to give me. It is not complex, it does not come with strings attached, there are no escape clauses or stipulations. It is pure. I don't feel that I deserve such love. I feel she deserves someone who is never a buffoon. Who never inadvertently hurts he

Rev 3:15, "I know your deeds, that you are neither cold not hot, I wish you were either one or the other! So, because you are lukewarm - neither hot nor cold - I am about to spit you out of my mouth." Isaiah 29:13 "These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me." let the below descriptions of "lukewarm Christians" convict you as they did me. A lukewarm Christian: 1. Craves acceptance from people more than acceptance from God. 2. Rarely shares their faith in Christ. 3. Does whatever it takes to alleviate their guilt. (...going to church once in a while perhaps?) 4. Thinks more about life on earth than eternity in heaven. (I can't wait to buy that new $30,000 car! I'm guilty!!!) 5. Gauge their morality by comparing ot others. (I'm so much holier than those non-christians.) 6. Want to be saved from teh penalty of sin without changing their lives. (i'll just ask for forgiveness, then

I feel sad. why? I feel like something is missing... like part of me isn't able to... be. I feel like something is missing. I feel sad.