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For more information, please contact [email protected]. Alumni JOURNALAlumni Association, School of Medicine of Loma Linda University May–August 2017 To Make Man Flourish God’s call to decrease physician burnout INSIDE: APC 2017 • Remembering Dr. Small • SDA Guidelines and PAS • Dr. Bailie’s Life of Providence TABLE of CONTENTS Alumni JOURNAL May–August 2017 Volume 88, Number 2 OUR PROGRESS HELP US FULLY ENDOW THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION. $3.0mil Editor BECOME A PERPETUAL MEMBER TODAY! Burton A. Briggs ’66 $2.7mil Associate Editors The Alumni Association is its own separate 501(c)(3) nonprofit entity. We are financially separate from LLU and LLUSM as a whole and rely on annual memberships, earnings from the Holding Fund, and other donations Donna L. Carlson ’69 $2.4mil Rolanda R. Everett ’92 to support our projects and the day-to-day operational costs. It is possible to permanently endow the 18 Association by raising $3 million in perpetual memberships, which will allow the Holding Fund, our investment Consulting Editor/Historian entity, to generate the required interest and dividends needed for Alumni Association operations. $2.1mil Dennis E. Park, MA, ’07-hon In December 2016, we sent out an appeal letter and received the following upgrades: $1.8mil Contributing Editor Karl P. Sandberg ’74 $1.5mil Managing Editor 22 Chris Clouzet Silver: 2 Gold: 17 Platinum: 6 Diamond: 6 Double Diamond: 1 Triple Diamond: 3 $1.2mil Design & Layout During APC 2017, more members joined the cause, resulting in the following upgrades: 26 Chris Clouzet $900k Calvin Chuang $600k Advertising Andrea Schröer Silver: 11 Gold: 11 Platinum: 5 Diamond: 9 Double Diamond: 1 Features Departments $300k Circulation We ask that you consider joining them in helping us reach this $3 million goal. To learn more about 12 A Humble and Gentle Giant: 2 From the Editor A.T. Tuot perpetual memberships visit www.llusmaa.org/page/perpetual-memberships or call the Alumni Remembering the man named Small 3 This and That Association office at 909-558-4633. Payments can be spread over five years. The Alumni JOURNAL is published 9.8% Dennis E. Park, MA ’07-hon recalls 4 From the President Thank you in advance for your support. anecdotes and lessons learned from the three times a year by the great Carrol S. Small ’34 6 From the Dean Alumni Association, 8 School of Medicine News School of Medicine of Perpetual Membership Quarter 1.indd 1 4/26/17 2:49 PM 15 SDA Guidelines and PAS Loma Linda University From a bioethics perspective, Gerald 10 The Student Fund 11245 Anderson St., Suite 200 Winslow, PhD, expounds on LLUMC’s policy 36 AIMS Report Loma Linda, CA 92354 regarding physician-assisted suicide –Global Service Awardees –Janie Yoo ’00 reports on new equipment funded Phone: 909-558-4633 18 The Divine Thread: Dr. Bailie’s life of by AIMS and others for the Lusaka Eye Hospital Fax: 909-558-4638 providential underpinning Email: [email protected] 40 Book Review Advertising: [email protected] The story of God’s leading in the life of –“The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia” longtime missionary Ira E. Bailie ’52 by Neil M. Gorsuch Find us online: 22 To Make Man Flourish: God’s call to 42 Alumni News www.llusmaa.org HONORED ALUMNI SELECTION CRITERIA ALUMNUS OF THE YEAR SELECTION CRITERIA decrease physician burnout 44 Placement and Classified Ads Facebook.com/llusmaa Nerida Taylor Bates ’94 examines the 1. A minimum of 10 years practicing medicine. 1. All criteria for choosing the 45 In Memoriam Twitter: @llusmaa 2. Never previously elected as an Honored Alumnus. Honored Alumni apply here as well. effect time with Jesus can have on a 3. The following factors should be considered: 2. A significant part of further consideration should be a burned-out physician 51 Historical Snapshot Instagram: @llusmaa a. contributions to medical education candidate’s having been recognized for a major contribution LinkedIn Group: Alumni Association b. medical missionary pursuits in the field of medicine or the humanities in recent past that 26 APC 2017 in Review 52 What’s Up, Doc? –Featuring Heather J. Walter ’74 c. medical research brings credit to his or her profession, School, and Church. Karl P. Sandberg ’74 gives his take on the School of Medicine of Loma Linda d. community, government, and military service weekend, plus photos, alumni honorees, University e. active commitment to goals and objectives of the SDA Church Extras f. commitment to, and support of, the LLUSM Alumni Association and more g. continuing active support of goals and objectives of the LLUSM 11 New Board Members and Officers h. active participation in appropriate medical and surgical societies Submit nominations to the Alumni Association office in writing, by email, or at www.llusmaa.org/page/nominate. Include the Printed by Lynx Group, Inc. nominee’s qualifications based on the criteria. Nominations close August 21, 2017. Awards will be presented at the 2018 APC Gala. On the Cover: Have you ever felt your professional life beginning to be singed by burnout? How can Salem, Oregon www.llusmaa.org/page/nominate (THUMBNAIL) ISTOCK.COM/KJEKOL (COVER) LIGHTSPRING/SHUTTERSTOCK; PHOTOS: today’s burned-out physicians bring their lives and practices back to healthy vitality? FROM the EDITOR THIS and THAT How to get ICD-10-cm Z73.0 Letters to the Editor All letters below pertain to the physician-assisted death feature “Am I My Brother’s Keeper?” in the January–April 2017 issue. involved with the here is an ICD10 code labeled “Z73.0.” You may know it. When I searched for the Alumni JOURNAL Tdefinition of Z73.0 on the ICD10 Data website I got the following result: AS A RESIDENT of Oregon I was glad giving me conflicting orders. I hate that. medical assistance in dying. I informed • Z73.0 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis to see the subject of physician-assisted I do not like the idea of “doctor-assisted them that, as they had refused my request for reimbursement purposes. death being discussed. It appeared that suicide.” But pain relief to the point of to allow me to print out the registration Communicate with us via: Gina J. Mohr ’96 was trying to keep an respiratory depression is okay if that is form and to write in an amended attes- • Letters to the editor • This is the American ICD-10-CM version of Z73.0. Other international versions of ICD-10 Z73.0 may differ. open mind, but towed the line toward the what the patient wants. tation, I would be attesting on a certain • Feedback, comments, end. Karl P. Sandberg ’74 ended with the Even the Bible says “Give strong drink future date, but that my attestation • and questions Reimbursement claims with a date of service on or after October 1, 2015, require the comment that “a natural death should to the dying” (Proverbs 31:6, ASV). would be done with the caveat that I will use of ICD-10-CM codes. • Social media be part of life as we know it. The Oath –Marland A. Hansen ’66 not follow standards of practice which If I wanted the complete definitions or further help, I needed to “create an account.” I of Hippocrates implies that physicians conflict with my moral and religious Notify us of: began to feel like the gecko in the GEICO insurance TV ad: “I have a flat tire, SOMEONE should be advocates of natural, rather WHEN MY BELIEVING mother, aged victim beliefs and which I believe may cause • Updates on life and PLEASE HELP ME!” I don’t want an additional account, I just want a straightforward than an unnatural death.” Tell that to a of a degenerating neurological condi- harm to patients. career definition of Z73.0! patient dying in agony of terminal cancer! tion who had advised my brother and I I do believe that medical assistance in • In memoriam notices Frustrating? YES. The irony? Code Z73.0 is, in one simple word: Burnout. Then Donna L. Carlson ’69 bringing up at separate times that she would like to dying would cause harm to the patient, • Changes of address Burnout has different connotations depending on the company you keep. In the illegal the “slippery slope to the holocaust” was go, was no longer able to maintain suffi- for I believe suicide is self-murder, and drug world, it refers to people who have “fried” their brain and cannot function with any almost too much. Fortunately, I turned cient oral intake, all of her children gath- I would be sending them to their grave Contribute your: kind of normal behavior. In the auto drag racing world, burnout refers to spinning the car’s the page to read Philip Gold’s ’01-fac ered at her bedside.