My patient returned a folded paper to me. This was a safety plan, a contingency to help when thoughts of self-harm appeared. One month...

Pruning is my least favorite part of gardening. It’s probably my least favorite part of life, too. I love watching the growth of new...

My patients inspire me. I have patients who really take lifestyle interventions seriously and have prevented or reversed chronic disease...

Christian Health Service Corps has a policy that missionaries should physically get away from their place of work every quarter. These...

6:30 I get up, brew tea, read my Bible, eat breakfast, and get ready. Greg’s awake by 7:00 and I ask him to help with the printer. I...

I drew in a deep breath as I considered my patient’s test results, wondering how I would explain them to her. These were the type of...

Yesterday was Susie’s last day shadowing me at ABC Clinic. Sometimes she really was like my shadow, quietly observing my conversations...

I wake up just after 6:00. I had dreams about people singing, influenced no doubt by the roosters crowing at all hours of the night and...

She came into my office alone, without a family member as a guardian, and she didn’t want a student to sit in on our meeting; her issue...

The settings couldn’t have been more different. A couple years ago in rural Malawi I sat down with a team of two clinicians who provided...

I admit that my reflections talk about tea more than most other things, but to be fair, tea helps me connect and reflect more than most....

We expected Thoko and Nixon sometime this afternoon, but we were working on our computers as we waited. After a bit, I looked outside,...

“You knit me together in my mother’s womb” I begin, reading from Psalm 139. “Munandiumba ndisanadwe ine,” Thoko reads from the Chichewa...

I munched mindlessly on banana chips and a marshmallow. I should eat dinner. I knew better than to eat this junk food at all. But this...

It’s dry, cold season in Malawi. Most families have harvested, dried, and stored their maize so it can sustain them in the months ahead....

I’ve never spoken to 1000 people before. I might have thought it would have been more intimidating, that I might have prepared for days...

It wasn’t our first time in this garden; we’d been here with ice cream cones on Valentine’s Day and with my gardener on a reconnaissance...

I start the day with an evaluation for the village chief. He has tingling pain in his legs and I am concerned that it could be due to...

I wouldn’t have become a missionary doctor by chance. A pair of surgeons from the church that raised me encouraged me to pursue medicine...

I woke up at 6:00, just right because I went to bed early last night By 8:00 I’ve had some cups of tea, breakfast with Greg, jogging with...