Posts Tagged ‘Religion’
{ May 4, 2010 @ 10:06 pm }
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{ Faith, Health, Hospital, Housemanship, Medicine, Personal, Religion, Work }
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A 30 year old vietnamese, working in a wood factory presented to A@E with alleged industrial injury. His left hand got stuck in a wood cutting machine, while working. Post-trauma, no LOC, no nausea and vomiting, no headache. But c/o left hand bleeding with severe pain and deformity. O/E, the left hand was totally crushed. 1st and 2nd finger totally gone and not viable. 3rd to 5th fingers viability questionable. Case was attended by Medical officer with me in the A@E itself. Patient’s BP was intially low, probably due to excessive bleeding, but then later responded to fluid resus. About 5 pints of Gelafundin was run.
This patient will need a hand microsurgery, which is not available in this hospital. He has to be referred to a hand microsurgeon which is about 3 hours journey from here. But another problem, since this patient is not a malaysian, a deposit of at least RM3000 is needed prior to surgery. My MO then consulted his employer regarding this option. As we expected, his employer is not keen to pay RM3000 for him, instead ask us to do wat we can for him.
So we planned a wound washout, wound debridement, K-wire insertion, and toilet and suturing under emergency GA, Keep In View Below Ankle Amputation if the 3rd to 5th fingers are not viable. consulted bout patient and his wife regarding this, and they signed the consent form.
So MO and me went in the surgery. Fortunately, his 3rd to 5th fingers were viable. So we did a wound washout, wound debridement, K-wire insertion and Toilet and suturing under GA. Patient was stable thoughout admission and discharge after 4 days.
Pre-surgery
Post-surgery
I do wonder, will he ever get back to work…. Will his employer give him any compensation…. the life of foreign worker in Malaysia is really a sad case…. Many more are like him….
One little mistake and he lost 2 fingers…. Thinking of this, sometimes I just give thanks to God for whatever I has. Having a full function limbs is already a blessing from God…
{ March 12, 2010 @ 11:37 pm }
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{ Christianity, Church, Faith, Health, Hospital, Housemanship, Medicine, Personal, Religion }
{ Tags: Academics, Blogs, Campus, Hospital, Houseman, Medicine, Personal, Relationships, Religion, Spiritual Life, USMKK } · { }
8 months into housemanship, 16 more months to go… Im counting days of being a houseman in a beloved country called Malaysia… Housemanship is only once in a lifetime, many ppl says we should learn as much as possible during housemanship… I do wonder… Hav I been learning enough the past 8 months? Still seems so much is lacking within me.
Im currently in a new posting, a very much different posting than the previous 2 ones. The previous 2 ones was really a very hectic and busy ones. They really drained me of my adrenaline… And now I really feel so tired and ‘malas’ already…
Here in this posting, I got more time for sports and social. Got to play badminton and futsal more often. Get to spend more time socialising with friends. I feel much ‘younger’ now… Really miss those days in USMKK where sports is an everyday thing to me…
But the past 8 months of hectic life has also drained me of my spiritual life. I oso now feeling tired and ‘malas’ spiritually. Tried to pray sometimes but really difficult to concentrate… Tried to read the bible but my eyes gets heavy in a short while. I need God’s love to overwhelm me again, that I will continue to desire Him more and more…
{ March 10, 2010 @ 7:49 pm }
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{ Christianity, Church, Faith, Health, Hospital, Personal, Religion, Testimony }
{ Tags: Academics, Blogs, Cell Group, Christ, Christian Fellowship, Christianity, Exams, Faith, God, Medicine, Personal, Relationships, Religion, Spiritual Life, Testimony } · { }
Have you become totally impatient with yourself? I have heard even the strongest Christians cry in utter frustration, “What’s wrong? I’m supposed to be a ‘new creation’ in Christ, but nothing seems to be changing. It’s the same old me!”
You may spend wakeful nights, feeling you can’t possibly measure up to God’s expectations of you, but put your mind to rest. Realize that spiritual growth is a process; sometimes a long process. Genuine maturity does not happen overnight.
The following Scripture, with which you may be very familiar, offers some helpful insights: “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold all things have become new” (2 Corinthians 5:17, NKJV). In the original language the full meaning is that old things are in the process of passing away; behold, all things are in the process of becoming new.
This refers directly to your life. What God is telling you is that all things in your soul and your innermost being are in the process of being transformed in and through His Life!
Don’t be impatient. Don’t be frustrated with yourself when progress doesn’t come as quickly as you’d like. You aren’t failing God. In His time He will complete a work in you that far exceeds what you could ever imagine or believe!
{ March 8, 2010 @ 6:53 pm }
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{ Christianity, Church, Faith, Health }
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As you prepare for bed tonight, consider what is troubling you the most at this point in your life. What (or whom) have you been calling on to help you with this problem?
How easy it is, in moments of panic, to call on everything we can think of (except the Lord) to relieve an uncomfortable situation. Maybe we call on the refrigerator, an aspirin or a coke. Anything to give us relief.
Or there are other alternatives, too…like complaining, venting our feelings on others, sleeping to escape, or just giving up.
Yet all these temporary means of relieving discomfort do little to help us cope any better the next time. Only the Lord can do that. That is why He urgently tells us over and over again to call on him. He wants us to get into the habit of letting Him come to our rescue, day and night. He promises us, “He will call upon me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honor him…the LORD is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth” (Psalms 91:15; 145:18, NIV).
{ March 6, 2010 @ 11:04 pm }
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{ CF, Christianity, Church, Faith, Health }
{ Tags: Blogs, Christ, Christian Fellowship, Christianity, Faith, Forgiveness, God, Jesus, Life, Medicine, Personal, Relationships, Religion, Spiritual Life, Trials } · { }
Hidden unforgiveness is the root cause of many sleepless nights – yet how many of you are aware of it? Sometimes our negative hold on others keeps our own spirits in a vise far below our conscious thoughts. Unforgiveness can be a tormentor.
One very powerful testimony is from a man named Bob who didn’t believe God wanted him to forgive his neighbor for molesting his child, yet ever since the incident he had been plagued with many tormenting physical ailments. A clergyman convinced him to go to his neighbor and freely forgive him. The impact of this meeting was so powerful that the neighbor accepted the Lord several weeks before he died. Meanwhile, every one of Bob’s symptoms was healed.
Jesus once told Peter to forgive his brother “seventy times seven.” Why? I think it may have taken Peter that many times to deal with unforgiveness in himself! Forgiveness is a very serious matter for God says: “…if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses” (Matthew 6:14-15, NKJV).
Ask the Lord to search your heart tonight and reveal any buried resentments of which you may not even be aware. Once they are purged, you will have sweet dreams.
{ March 6, 2010 @ 1:29 pm }
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{ Christianity, Church, Faith, Health, Medicine }
{ Tags: Blogs, CF, Christ, Christian Fellowship, Christianity, Faith, God, Jesus, Medicine, Personal, Religion, Spiritual Life } · { }
Are you fretting tonight about someone who is almost driving you crazy by rationalizing everything to his own advantage? Most of us, at one time or another, have been almost driven to the end of our ropes by people who hide behind their own carnal or twisted reasoning in order to avoid the truth and manipulate others.
“Don’t worry about the bills,” one man told his wife. “Just live one day at a time.” “I don’t know why you fuss over taxes,” another one said, “When they want my money, they’ll come get it.” It can be maddening! But it’s comforting to know that Jesus, too, had to deal with folks like this. Perhaps one key to His serenity was that He didn’t let their distorted thinking get to Him. He took them all with a grain of salt.
“‘What can I say about such men?’ Jesus asked. ‘With what shall I compare them? They are like a group of children’…John the Baptist used to go without food and never took a drop of liquor all his life, and you said, ‘He must be crazy!’ But I eat my food and drink my wine and you say, ‘What a glutton Jesus is!’…I am sure you can always justify your inconsistencies” (Luke 7:31-35, TLB).
If someone’s mental gymnastics are irritating you tonight, try taking the same attitude Jesus did. Pray that his darkened mind will one day be enlightened by another Source and hold fast to the serenity He has promised you.
{ March 6, 2010 @ 12:44 am }
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{ CF, Christianity, Church, Faith, Health }
{ Tags: Blogs, Christ, Christian Fellowship, Christianity, Christmas, Faith, God, Hospital, Houseman, Malaysia, Medicine, Personal, Religion, Spiritual Life, Testimony } · { }
This song ‘Who am I’ by Casting Crown caught my heart. A song that speaks of our human weaknesses and meakness, which also speaks of God’s wondrous grace and might. The lower and humbler we get, the greater the God in us. Grace comes when there is repentance. His strength comes when we are weak. He is the Alpha and Omega of our faith. A tower of shield in times of trouble…
As a house officer, I owiz aware of my limitations and incapabilities. But God is there, and He is owiz there. As long as we empty ourselves, He will fill us up back again…
Who am I – Casting Crowns
Who am I, that the Lord of all the earth
Would care to know my name
Would care to feel my hurt
Who am I, that the bright and morning star
Would choose to light the way
For my ever wandering heart
Not because of who I am
But because of what You’ve done
Not because of what I’ve done
But because of who You are
CHORUS:
I am a flower quickly fading
Here today and gone tomorrow
A wave tossed in the ocean
Vapor in the wind
Still You hear me when I’m calling
Lord, You catch me when I’m falling
And You’ve told me who I am
I am Yours, I am Yours
Who am I, that The Eyes that see my sin
Would look on me with love
And watch me rise again
Who am I, that The Voice that calmed the sea
Would call out through the rain
And calm the storm in me
{ March 5, 2010 @ 7:07 pm }
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{ Christianity, Church, Faith, Health, Hospital, Housemanship, Medical studies, Personal, Religion, Testimony }
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If you were to look outside on a dark, stormy day, would you think the sun had disappeared, just because you couldn’t see it? Of course not.
Yet, some of you may be beside yourselves tonight because you’ve failed the Lord so badly you can’t imagine Him still being faithful to you. “After all,” you reason, “we reap what we sow. I’ve hit hard times and haven’t sown anything, so I guess I can’t expect anything from the Lord. I don’t know if I’ll ever pull out of this rut.”
But, as valid as God’s principle of reaping and sowing is, there’s another part of His Word, even more powerful, which says, “If we are faithless…He remains true (faithful to His Word and His righteous character), for He cannot deny Himself…He will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry; when He hears it, He will answer you” (II Timothy 2:13 and Isaiah 30:19, AMP).
So, tonight, rest securely in the knowledge that there is nothing you can do to diminish His faithfulness to you, even if you haven’t been faithful to Him! Believe that He will be gracious to you at the sound of your cry. When He hears it He will answer you! He understands the circumstances of your life and wants to help you draw close to Him again!
{ March 3, 2010 @ 11:05 pm }
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{ Christianity, Church, Faith, Health }
{ Tags: Campus Life, Cell Group, Christ, Christian Fellowship, Christianity, Desire, Dreams, God, Hope, Jesus, Personal, Relationships, Religion, Trials } · { }
As a child, did you ever wish upon a star? What did you wish for then? What would you wish for now? Some of you might want a spouse; some a bigger house; some a sense of happiness, and some would just hope to make the next car payment.
King David had his own way of “wishing upon a star.” He wrote psalms to the Lord expressing his hopes and dreams. In this psalm he told God exactly what he would want if he could have but one desire fulfilled: “One thing I have desired of the LORD, That will I seek: That I may dwell in the house of the LORD All the days of my life, To behold the beauty of the LORD And to inquire in His temple” (Psalm 27:4, NKJV).
What an incredible testimony this is to the love David had for His God! How many of us would ever have thought of that?
Yet that is exactly what God is hoping we’ll desire! Over and over again He exhorts us to dwell in Him; to abide in Him; to come to the “secret place.” Where is this secret place? It’s in your heart. It is the place where you will truly experience His beauty and receive His counsel in all things.
Seek the Lord and ask Him to help you dwell there, as David did. As you do, may you enjoy a bountiful rest.
{ March 1, 2010 @ 10:33 pm }
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{ Faith, Health, Hospital, Personal, Religion }
{ Tags: Addiction, Christ, Food, Life, Personal, Religion, Spiritual Life } · { }
“I didn’t think I had a disease,” the woman cried, “but now I know I do. Now I know I have a problem.” Hers was an addiction to overeating and sugar. It had been a long journey to this admission, plagued with sleepless nights. But the thoughts that kept her awake were not of desserts or chocolate crepes. What Satan used were fits of unresolved anger, worry, anxiety and fear that drove her to escape in food.
Night after night her self-destructive thoughts had raged: “I hate this life. I hate myself. I don’t want tomorrow to come. I’m not good enough for God. I’ve done nothing but fail.” Satan caused her problems to be so exaggerated that she had no hope, until she humbled herself and confessed her addiction.
What about you? Has an addiction of any kind bound you? Can you humble yourself enough to admit to God that you have a problem? God wants to help. He says:
“…humble yourselves…under the mighty hand of God…Casting the whole of your care – all your anxieties, all your worries, all your concerns, once and for all – on Him; for He cares for you affectionately, and cares about you watchfully. Be well-balanced – temperate, sober-minded” (1 Peter 5:6-8, AMP).
It may not be easy to reach out to God for help and be honest with yourself. Take that courageous step tonight. In Christ you have the power to overcome!
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