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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 HELP US FULLY ENDOW THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION. OUR PROGRESS $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. Initially, she was in a without God and without hope—I will not • Best photographs of tires, without moving forward, to get them hot and sticky and improve traction. For young informed comments regarding person- semi-conscious state. We did not request do that to anyone. My opportunity is to hobbies, travel, and people, spinning one’s tires and producing a lot of smoke is an attempt to impress someone, hood, etc. I am glad California has come any measures to maintain life. We stayed lead my patients to find rest in their Savior career usually of the opposite sex. out of the dark ages to join Oregon and beside her until her breathing changed in suffering, for He suffered for us in the • Manuscripts of stories, In the environment of professional workers, burnout refers to emotional exhaustion three other states. and she returned to Him who had given flesh, and He, as we must as long as life essays, and poems producing a negative impact on their work performance. Burned out indi- –Arthur G. Howard ’62 it. We all respected the Life-giver, and the shall last, learned obedience by the things • Ideas for content, viduals experience a loss of enthusiasm for work, a feeling of cynicism, and moments together are in memory. which He suffered. subjects, and themes frequently a low sense of personal accomplishment. It is estimated that I thought that by putting the word “euthanasia” My governing college required all My God moved upon the hearts of the across all medical specialties 30 to 60 percent of practitioners are experi- in brackets, I’d made it clear that I believe we physicians to register online for the new college and they determined nothing more Reach us by: encing burnout, with the highest percentages being in primary care and are on the way to euthanasia (as I think we year and to attest that they would follow needed to be done. They accepted my Email: [email protected] emergency medicine. definitely are), but not (I hope) to a holocaust. the Standards of Practice, including registration for 2017. –Ray K. Hetland ’82 n Phone: 909-558-4633 Researchers debate the sequence of the three stages of burnout: –Donna L. Carlson ’69, associate editor Mail: 11245 Anderson St., emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and detachment. The Suite 200 sequence will vary between men and women; but the three stages My Alumni JOURNAL came in the Photo Update: Vision 2020 Loma Linda, CA 92354 are present in everyone who develops “burnout.” mail just after lunch yesterday. I read the Many causes are attributed to the development of burnout in entire issue and finished at 10:40 p.m. For more information about the Hospital Construction physicians. The following are just a few: the stresses of maintaining an last night. I have spent time during the Alumni JOURNAL, advertising electronic medical record, a lack of time off, not enough face-to-face night reflecting on many situations with rates, and past issues, please visit www.llusmaa.org/journal. time with patients, too many bureaucratic tasks, insufficient income, patients and their families during the too large a debt load, increasing computerization, and regulations that dying process. In those situations, I like it do not provide any benefit to the physician-patient relationship. when all the family agree and are at peace I trust you will appreciate on page 22 of this issue the thought- with each other and the patient. I think provoking essay addressing physician burnout by Nerida the patient’s wishes should be carried out Taylor Bates ’94 entitled “To Make Man Flourish: God’s call except for massive doses of IV narcotics to to decrease physician burnout.” In addition, enjoy the recap cause death on demand. of APC 2017 beginning on page 26. n People in good health have come to me asking what they should do if they should get to the point where the quality of life is a burden. I tell them I am going to quit eating and drinking at home. I have seen friends do this and they were gone within Burton A. Briggs ’66 two weeks. The Loma Linda University Hospital and Children’s Hospital are bathed in the glow of Editor I have witnessed family fights at the construction lights during the second foundation pour on April 29, 2017. (Photo by Dennis bedside with yelling and shouting and E. Park, MA, ’07-hon.)

2 Alumni JOURNAL May–August 2017 3 FROM the PRESIDENT One of a Kind “The Alumni Association, School of Medicine of Loma Linda University, promotes and supports the School of Medicine, its faculty, students, and global alumni community to charitable, religious, educational, and scientific activities.”

ou can see from our stated mission and purpose Supporting our School of Medicine in financial ways Yabove that we are a unique organization. For over is another mission of the Association. The tradition of 100 years (starting in 1915) we have maintained this annual class gifts to the School started in 1961 and has organization and through it connected with our alumni continued to this day. So far, alumni classes have raised throughout the world. more than $30 million for the School of Medicine. In 1932, the Alumni Association was legally incor- porated as a separate entity from the school, then called For over 100 years (starting in 1915) we have the College of Medical Evangelists. The first alumni convention, at the time called the Alumni Clinical maintained this organization and through it Congress, was held the following year. In 1953, the event connected with our alumni throughout the world. was renamed the Alumni Postgraduate Convention. It was again renamed slightly in 1977 to the Annual Our organization is uniquely situated to help students Postgraduate Convention (APC). Throughout its long escape the burden of enormous student debt, to aid our history, the convention has benefited alumni. Today, missionary doctors, and to help our School of Medicine it continues to offer a unique clinical, scientific, social, to reach its goals. These goals include providing for and religious experience unavailable at any other U.S. outstanding education and research in an atmosphere of medical institution. whole-mindedness of purpose in spreading the Gospel At our last APC event in early March 2017, of Christ and the healing arts to all parts of the world. I had the honor and privilege to reunite with To my friends and colleagues and all the members of many of my classmates from the Class of 1967. the Association—let’s keep our organization vital and What a tremendously joyful experience it do it together! was, with a mixture of sadness as well. It In closing, I would like to share a couple of my favorite was a joy to see class members I had quotations: not seen for a long time—some the entire 50 years since graduation. It “It is more blessed to give than to receive” (Acts 20:35). was saddening to be reminded of the loss of 19 of our classmates over “No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens this same period. of another” (Charles Dickens). n

Anton N. Hasso ’67 Alumni Association President

Save the Date! APC 2018: March 2–5

4 Alumni JOURNAL FROM the DEAN A Precious Gift n April I visited with Alumni Association board mem- of their clinical time on computers. Burnout results not Iber H. Del Schutte ’84. We talked about the stresses of from hard work but from a “sense of futility, the fear medical school and a recent article about an east coast that all the hard work isn’t making a difference” (Harold senior medical student whose suicide was thought to be Kushner, “Living a Life That Matters”). related to the anxiety surrounding the residency match The topic of burnout has accelerated to the forefront process. I shared with Del a presentation by Darrell of the minds of most of us. At Loma Linda we have joined Kirch, MD (psychiatrist and president of the American other health care systems and established an Office of Association of Medical Colleges), to more than 100 Physician Vitality for both the 700-plus residents and medical school deans in November 2016. Dr. Kirch said more than 1,000 members of the clinical faculty. This the most common and pressing topic addressed to his wellness program recently was recognized with the office is “student apprehension related to the medical Medicus Integra Award, given to those health systems student match.” that have effective services and programs addressing this Because the recent and rapid increase in new schools growing need. The award was started by alumnus Ted E. (off shore, on shore, MD, and DO) has outpaced the Hamilton ’73-A to encourage physician well-being. number of residency slots, the graduating seniors are now applying to an alarming average of 53 programs! Over the past few years the tension on medical Over the past few years the tension on medical school school campuses has become palpable. campuses has become palpable. Step 1 and 2 board scores and the residency match are just the begin- It is the opinion of many that at Loma Linda ning of subsequent stressors facing the resident University Health we have a unique and extraordinary and practicing physician that put all of us at risk tool to mitigate burnout—the Sabbath. Again and again for burnout. students and alumni have told me the story of their not The increase in patient complexity and appreciating the Sabbath until medical school. It was the the specialization of doctors into hospi- freedom from guilt inculcated by Sabbath traditions that talists and ambulatory-care providers gave them balance to survive. While we acknowledge have robbed us of the continuity of care that each case of burnout is unique—the causes some- that has been so important in rewarding times complex and the solutions not always simple—we us with a job well done. The implemen- can be grateful that our Creator gave us the precious gift Comprehensive Financial Planning For Medical Professionals tation of the electronic health record of the Sabbath. And that gives us the assurance that our has resulted in a decline in face-to-face work is not futile. Indeed, if He carefully and intention- time during patient assessments, which ally thought of this important aspect of our lives, we • Learn how to set realistic financial goals and how to work towards them. detracts from the connectivity to the have the hope that He created us for a divine purpose: to • Understand effective techniques for maximizing returns. patient. Indeed, a recent study found accomplish the work that He has called each of us to do, that physicians now spend 51 percent according to His will for us. n • Everyone has unique and professional needs for savings and retirement. Learn what yours are. • Review how financial strategies benefit you by examining your investment and asset allocation.

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Science Cites SM Faculty by sticking cardiac progenitor cells—tissue-specific SM Researcher Passes 1,000 Citations stem cells that can develop into heart muscle— premier research journal has into a device called a clinostat, which rotates them he School of Medicine’s research activities continue to in humans. PAS domains from Acited Mary Kearns-Jonker, constantly to minimize gravitational force. Treach new heights. In addition to seven-digit grants bacteria to humans have certain PhD, associate professor of Her team has discovered that cardiac progenitors that are becoming more common, one researcher has characteristics in common. Dr. pathology and human anatomy. from neonates, but not adults, seem to proliferate passed a new milestone: 1,000 citations. Taylor’s paper informed many Science, which is published by better under these microgravity conditions, and that This badge of honor goes to Barry L. Taylor, PhD, ’01-fac, investigators that one or more of the American Association for the they show signs of dedifferentiation—reverting back emeritus professor of basic sciences, for his article, “PAS the proteins they were studying Advancement of Science—the to a more primitive, unspecialized state. “They back Domains: Internal Sensors of Oxygen, Redox Potential, contained a PAS domain, and world’s oldest and largest general up a little bit to go forward more efficiently,” she and Light.” As of the end of 2015, Dr. Taylor’s article was this gave them a clue to how science organization—referred to explained. In fact, she has found that microgravity can cited 1,045 times, according to Web of Science. the protein functioned. This Dr. Kearns-Jonker’s spaceflight Mary Kearns- activate certain genetic pathways that kick into gear Dr. Taylor investigated how bacteria find their way information contributed to a Barry L. Taylor, work in an online article entitled, Jonker, PhD when damaged tissue regenerates. to a concentration of oxygen that is optimal for growth. burst of new investigations of PhD, ’01-fac “Why are scientists shooting stem cells into space?” But “it’s generally agreed that there’s no perfect After his group discovered an E. coli receptor for this PAS domains. Here is an excerpt from the article: [microgravity] system on Earth,” she says. So in March behavior, Igor Zhulin, who was in Dr. Taylor’s research After the paper was published in 1999, a leading 2017, cells from her lab are slated to start a monthlong group and is listed as co-author of the article, found that investigator of PAS in clock proteins predicted that the Transplant immunologist Mary Kearns-Jonker [...] stay on the ISS, to find out whether the age-dependent the receptor protein had a domain—called PAS—similar article would reach most-cited status. “I was surprised by has been experimenting with simulated microgravity effects she has seen also occur in space.  to PAS domains in clock proteins. his observation,” Dr. Taylor says. “I’m still surprised by The paper that was widely cited identified 200 addi- this honor but grateful that our research has influenced tional proteins that had a PAS domain and showed that the direction of the field and helped other investigators. Weniger Society Honors 2 Grants Top $4 Million PAS domains are widespread in nature and found in I have been blessed by the highly talented people who every branch of the tree of life, including oxygen sensors worked in my research group.” n SM Faculty he School of Medicine has Treceived significant grants to he Charles E. Weniger Society honored two members support the research mission of 100 Percent Match Tof the School of Medicine faculty for their contri- Loma Linda University Health. butions to the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Brian S. The National Institutes of on Match Day Bull ’61, professor of pathology and human anatomy, and Health (NIH) awarded a $1.975 Sigve Tonstad, PhD, 79-A, assistant professor of medi- million grant to support research ongratulations to the Class of 2017. cine, each received a Weniger Award at a ceremony at the on “epigenetic mechanisms of COf the 154 fourth-year students society’s annual meeting February 18 at the Loma Linda developmental regulation of fetal, Ravi Goyal, PhD, MD who applied for residency, 100 percent University Church. newborn, and adult cerebral matched. Sixty-eight students will The award is named in honor of the late seminary artery sympathetic innervation be staying in Loma Linda, while the dean and English professor Charles E. Weniger. Since it and alpha1 adrenergic receptor remainder will be headed to programs was founded in 1974, the Weniger Society has presented subtypes.” The principal inves- throughout the country. A little more the award to only 160 prominent Adventists. n tigator is Ravi Goyal, PhD, MD, than half—52 percent—have chosen assistant professor of basic sciences. primary care, while 15 percent will be Another NIH grant of $2.25 training in a surgical specialty. n million will support research on how “maternal inhaled nicotine Aaron Phillips ’17 and Kathleen Aguilar ’17 leads to aberrant development DaLiao Xiao, PhD, DVM react to the sight of their Match results on of hypertensive phenotype.” The March 17. Now married, both have begun principal investigator is DaLiao Xiao, PhD, DVM, asso- their residencies at Children’s National ciate professor of basic sciences. n Medical Center in Washington, DC.

Sigve Tonstad ’79 (left) and Brian S. Bull ’61 hold their Weniger awards. Dr. Tonstad teaches in the LLU School of Upcoming Alumni Events Follow the School of Medicine Online Religion and has authored numerous books, including, “The Lost Meaning of the Sabbath” and his latest, “God of Sense July 9–20, 2017 Website: medicine.llu.edu Student Blog: www.llu.edu/llusmblog and Traditions of Non-Sense,” reviewed in the September– Nordic Legends Cruise Facebook: Facebook.com/llusm The Dean’s Instagram: @RogerHadley December 2016 issue of this magazine. Dr. Bull has written August 21, 2017 Twitter: @LLUMedSchool extensively about science and religion, including his 2011 Nominations due for 2018 alumni honorees book “God, Sky & Land.” (Photo by Ansel Oliver/LLUH.) March 2–5, 2018 The School of Medicine News is developed by Tony Yang, marketing 86th Annual Postgraduate Convention director at the School of Medicine. 8 Alumni JOURNAL May–August 2017 9 NEW BOARD MEMBERS Photo Op: Senior Symposium with Dr. Werner New Board of Directors Members and Officers t the annual Sunday Alumni Luncheon held during APC on March 5, 2017, Anton N. Hasso ’67, president of the AAlumni Association, welcomed the newest members of the Association’s board of directors. Also introduced were a new Alumni Association officer and a new member of the Holding Fund Board of Directors. Read about them below. Jeremy K. Deisch ’06 is an associate Rebekah M. Wang-Cheng ’78 is medical professor of pathology and human director for care coordination at Banner anatomy and medical director for the Baywood Medical Center and Banner Pathologists’ Assistant Training Pro- Heart Hospital in Gilbert, Arizona. She gram at LLU. He also serves on the formerly served at Kettering Medical board of directors for the Walter E. Center, St. Helena Medical Center, and Macpherson Society. the Medical College of Wisconsin.

Steven C. Herber ’86 has been pres- Stephen K. Waterbrook ’04 is a surgeon ident and CEO of St. Helena Hos- in Grass Valley, California. He was pital since 2014. He is the founder formerly a clinical assistant professor of St. Helena Institute for Plastic of surgery for the Kettering Health Net- Surgery. He formerly taught in the work. He is trained in robotic surgery LLU department of surgery. and is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons. (Above) At the close of the 2017 Senior Symposium at the Centennial Complex, Leonard Erica L. Kinne ’08 is an assistant pro- Werner ’81-res (center, yellow tie) is surrounded by members of the Class of 2017 for fessor of radiology and the associate Shane K. Williams ’02 is an orthopedic a photo. His talk was called “Residency Send-off.” Dr. Werner will continue to teach program director for the diagnostic ra- surgeon at Kaiser Permanente River- medicine but is retiring from his post as senior associate dean of Medical Student Education. He has held an administrative position since 1987. (Left) Andrew ’17 and diology residency program at LLU. She side Medical Center. He focuses on Tara Viscarra ’17 pose with their new Alumni Association–sponsored mugs following joined the faculty in 2014 after com- arthroscopic surgery, hand and upper the symposium lectures. The mugs list all the members of the class. (Photos contributed pleting a musculoskeletal fellowship at extremity surgery, and knee replace- by class historian Jonathan Min ’17.) UC San Diego. ment surgery.

Daniel P. Srikureja ’10 is a staff surgeon in the department of minimally inva- Alumni Association Officer Two Seniors Recognized sive and general surgery and the de- Jon R. Kattenhorn ’74 partment of acute care surgery at LLU. Dr. Kattenhorn has practiced obstetrics t the 2017 Annual Postgraduate Conven- He recently became assistant clerkship and gynecology in Boise, Idaho, for tion Gala, Nichole Loree Baruth ’17 was A director for the third-year medical stu- more than 38 years, in private and hospi- recognized by the Student Affairs Council of dent surgery clerkship. tal-based practices. He has served on the the Alumni Association for her outstanding Alumni Association Board of Directors leadership and service to the Class of 2017. Dr. Sonja W. Tang ’94 practices internal for three years and coordinated the APC Baruth was her class’ representative to the SAC medicine at the Kaiser Permanente Red- Gala for the past two. throughout her four years of medical school. lands Medical Offices. She is active with Tyler Pender ’17 received the Class of 1990 the U.S. China Christian Institute, a Heart for Service Award, which comes with nonprofit charitable humanitarian orga- Holding Fund Board of Directors Member a $1,000 check from the Class of 1990 funds. nization started by her parents, John B. Geir P. Frivold ’81 During medical school, Dr. Pender served as a Wong ’60 and Alice Wong, PhD. Dr. Frivold has been a cardiologist at community tutor, a leader for the student-led the Jerry L. Pettis Memorial VA Medical homeless service Street Medicine, and as the (Left) Nichole Loree Baruth ’17 poses with Gina J. Mohr ’96, SAC chair, and H. Roger Joseph M. Verska ’87 is an orthope- Center for 24 years, where he is also an Hadley ’74 project leader for his class’ mission project, , dean of the School of Medicine, after being recognized. (Right) Tyler dic surgeon in Boise, Idaho, where he associate director of the cardiology fel- Pender ’17 receives the Class of 1990 Heart for Service Award and poses for a photo which has raised $24,000 for the Chulala introduced minimally invasive spine lowship program. He formerly practiced with Drs. Mohr and Hadley. Clinic in Lusaka, Zambia. n techniques and artificial disc replace- for several years in Norway, his country ment surgery. He founded the Spine In- of birth. n The Student Fund is a branch of the Student Affairs Council and part of the Alumni Association, LLUSM. Its activities are stitute of Idaho and is passionate about financed by your contributions and greatly appreciated by LLU medical students. For more information or to make a donation, short-term overseas mission service. please contact the Alumni Association at 909-558-4633 or [email protected].

10 Alumni JOURNAL May–August 2017 11 REMEMBERING DR. SMALL

As I write this article, I cannot help but be reminded was published with little change to the way I had gutted of the time Dr. Small reviewed the draft of my first it. I will always be grateful for that teaching moment. A Humble and Gentle Giant article written for the Alumni JOURNAL. He took the Of the many memories I have of Dr. Small, there is a opportunity to make the review a teaching moment. particular experience that is forever embedded in my mind. Remembering the man named Small Rather than handing the draft back to me all inked up One of Dr. Small’s passions was the Student Loan Fund, in red, with corrective notes in the margin, he invited which benefited School of Medicine students. He was By Dennis E. Park, MA, hon-’07, consulting editor/historian me into the conference room where he handed me his passionate in a discreet way about his giving to the fund, ubiquitous red pen and quietly said: “Dennis, one can yet vocal to the members of the Alumni Fund Council that always say more with less.” I believe that was Dr. Small’s it should have a higher priority than all the other funds the way of saying: “DENNIS, YOUR ARTICLE IS TOO council promoted. Dr. Small led by example: during the is surname was Small. He was known as WORDY!” He then encouraged me to use the red pen to fall of the year it was his custom to appear at the Alumni Carrol Small, C.S. Small, and Carrol S. “gut” (an appropriate term for a pathologist, I thought) Association office (even before the fall campaign material Small, MD. Dr. Small ’34 had many the article. How could I strike out words that I had fought was mailed out) with a folded check in hand. In 1995, as H so hard to arrange on the page? I began to strike out a was his custom, Dr. Small brought in his annual donation. attributes: he was a man of integrity, a man of intelligence, word or two while the word “gut” reverberated in my a man of passion, a man of dependability, a man of head. I soon returned to the beginning and with reckless One of Dr. Small’s passions was the Student Loan Fund, which generosity, a man who loved the written word, and a abandon began to cross out whole sentences and then benefited School of Medicine students. man who loved his God. He was a giant among his peers, paragraphs. The red ink flowed, leaving vast swaths of medical students, and fellow alumni. He was active in his blood-colored stains all over the pages. When the gutting We knew that during the year he had not been feeling well church, the community, and in the administrative affairs was over, I timidly handed what was left of the article and his offhanded comment as he passed me the check of the Alumni Association. back to him. After glancing through the sheets, he folded caused some concern. “Dennis, I don’t think you should I first observed some of these attributes when I met the papers and slid my work into his lab coat. He smiled expect another donation from me next year.” He paused and Dr. Small in the mid-1970s. At the time, one of my as he rose from the chair, and in that same quiet tone he continued. “This most likely will be my last.” After he left the responsibilities was to prepare the indirect cost study had earlier used stated: “I think you got it.” The article office, his words haunted me for days. What did he mean? report for the LLU Grants Finance Office. This included updating the building square footage assigned for research. Dr. Small was the contact person for the basic Carrol S. Small ’34 pauses during one of his pathology Loma Linda University Health has always science buildings and at the appointed time I met him lectures behind a microscope and wearing what was known For the Future of our Students on the steps of Shryock Hall. After a few pleasantries, he in the day as a lollipop microphone. meant a lot to us. This institution provided invited me to take the tour. us with a Christian education and the We LIVE to Give Of this experience some four decades ago, I remember organization. Dr. Small was the editor of the Alumni professional foundation to experience a humble man in a well-worn white lab coat who took JOURNAL, and he would spend hours at a small desk in adventures around the world. We prepare students to care for the whole the time to walk me through the basement halls, which a hallway alcove of the Alumni Center. He didn’t use a person - body, mind and spirit. You can play echoed the footsteps of those who had gone before. I computer; he wrote JOURNAL outlines, drafts, articles, — Jack and Sharan Bennett remember the man’s encyclopedic amount of knowledge, and even memos in longhand, a cursive style that was an important role in impacting Loma Linda LLUSM Class of ‘62 not only of the research carried out in the warrens of precise, neat, and unvarying. University Health by establishing a legacy gift the basic science buildings, but also of the history of the I came to learn many things about Dr. Small. He had to benefi t Vision 2020 – the campaign for a campus. I remember a man who used his master key been a missionary in India prior to joining the pathology to unlock creaky doors to show me where research was faculty at his alma mater. He became chair of that whole tomorrow. taking place. With each opened door he would beckon department and served with distinction until 1973. He What’s Your Plan? To learn more about including Loma Linda University Health me to enter. We stood gazing about the room, be it a large fulfilled a term as president of the Alumni Association lab crammed full of equipment or a small closet with a (1946–1947). In 1980, he was one of two honored alumni in your estate plans, contact the offi ce of planned giving. table and chair, a microscope or two, and a box of slides. recognized at the 1980 APC Banquet. Two years later, at I could tell that Dr. Small was in his element and enjoyed the 1982 APC Banquet, he was named Alumnus of the sharing anecdotes with his young visitor. Year. A competent writer and editor, he served two tours After that meeting, our paths would occasionally of duty as editor of the Alumni JOURNAL: 1976–1982 Offi ce of Planned Giving cross as we traversed the campus. Sometimes we would and 1988–1990. In the interim he took on the role as 11175 Mountain View Avenue, Suite B stop and chat. Other times we would acknowledge editor-in-chief of the book “Diamond Memories,” which Loma Linda, CA 92354 each other with a simple nod and a brief hello. In 1989 celebrated and commemorated the 75th anniversary 909-558-4553 | [email protected] I was able to observe the true measure of the man of the School of Medicine of Loma Linda University. llulegacy.org firsthand. I had recently joined the Alumni Association The book was published in 1984 and continues to be a and was quickly thrust into the inner workings of the definitive work on the history of the School of Medicine. MANY STRENGTHS. ONE MISSION.

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Soon after his visit, the holidays came and went, and with them a new year. Then two months later came APC 1996. Dr. Small would attend all of the APC weekend SDA Guidelines and PAS events, including the banquet. Still, we observed that year By Gerald R. Winslow, PhD that Dr. Small was not himself. His ever-present camera at such events was absent. Not long after APC, the dreaded “C-word” was uttered in the same sentence that informed Ed. note: In the January–April 2017 issue we printed the feature “Am I My Brother’s Keeper?: Reflections on physician- the office staff that Dr. Small was back in the hospital. My assisted death.” As a follow-up, the editors asked Gerald Winslow, PhD, director of the LLU Center for Christian Bioethics, to summarize the background and basis for LLU Medical Center’s policy that opts out of participation in the provisions of heart sank, and like an unexpected bolt of lightning, his California’s End of Life Option Act. months-old statement came to mind front and center. Sometime later word reached the staff that Dr. Small would require major facial surgery. After an appropriate hat shall we call the practice of writing a prescription for a lethal dosage of a medication time of convalescence, he resumed his visits to the During his second term as Alumni JOURNAL editor, Dr. intended to aid a patient who wants to end his or her life? “Physician-assisted suicide” alumni office and gradually began to sit in on some of Small snapped this self-portrait in the reflection of the (PAS) was once the most common way of referring to this practice. The use of “suicide” in the committees’ meetings of which he was a member. Dr. building that would one day bear his name—the Carrol S. W Small took his illness in stride. He never complained. He Small Alumni Center. that name bothered many people, so the expressions tated by affirmations of positive actions to help persons at soldiered on when others in his circumstance might have “physician aid-in-dying” or “physician-assisted death” the end of life, and not simply an explanation or a defense curtailed their public activities. grown to appreciate over the years. Above the memo line became more socially acceptable in many circles. Other of non-participation in PAS. As the weeks and months went by, we sensed that Dr. was written: “Student Loan Fund.” My eyes gravitated expressions now include “Death with Dignity” (the title The seven principles that frame the Adventist guide- Small was not feeling up to par. He no longer rode his upward toward the amount. True, the amount was less, of Oregon’s 1997 law) or “End of Life Option” (the title lines are prefaced with these words: “For people whose bike, his visits to the office became less frequent, and his but still in the five-digit range. of California’s recently enacted law). The ability to name lives are guided by the Bible, the reality of death is attendance at meetings grew more irregular. His well- “Dr. Small,” I said holding back tears, “no, you didn’t things can be powerfully influential in shaping social acknowledged as part of the current human condition, worn lab coat of many colors, which I was convinced was lie; the circumstances just changed.” attitudes. One person’s “labor leader” is someone else’s affected by sin.” According to Scripture, there is “a time to a wearable petri dish so that he could monitor exper- With a slight smile, he murmured, “I hope it does “union boss.” One person’s “political hack” is someone be born and a time to die.”2 The introduction also recog- iments on the go, had been replaced by a sweater or a some good.” else’s “statesman.” And so forth. For the purposes of this nizes the pervasive human experience of suffering and sports jacket. Before we knew it, fall was once again in the As I placed my hand on his shoulder, I thanked him brief article, I have chosen the language of “physician-as- rejects the notion that persons may somehow earn merit air. We did not see Dr. Small for several weeks, which was for his dedicated generosity over the years. After we sisted suicide” because that seems to be the most accurate through such suffering. In words that anticipate one of a bit unusual. About a week before Christmas I was at my shook hands, he turned and made his way out the door, description of what is authorized by the laws that have the principles to come, the preface states that Adventists desk going over some correspondence when out of the pausing for a few moments to gaze at the hallway wall emerged, and others currently being proposed, in the “believe that allowing a patient to die by foregoing medical on which hung the portraits of 71 past presidents of the various states of the U.S. interventions that only prolong suffering and postpone Before we knew it, fall was once again in the air. We did not Alumni Association. I noticed that he had removed his the moment of death is morally different from actions see Dr. Small for several weeks, which was a bit unusual. rumpled hat and was positioned in front of his photo, By now, almost every conceivable argument, that have as their primary intention the direct taking of a flanked by those of George Thomason ’90-hon* (president life.” A brief summary of the seven principles should help corner of my eye I saw Dr. Small standing in the doorway. 1945–1946) and Clarence E. Stafford ’32 (president pro or con, regarding physician-assisted suicide to provide the needed context for this position. A rumpled sport coat hung limply off his slightly bent 1947–1948). I could not help but think, Here stands the has been offered, and rebuttals attempted. frame, and an old hat sat slightly askew on his head. I 22nd president of the Alumni Association and a member The first principle affirms the importance of truth- offered Dr. Small a chair as he approached the desk, but of the distinguished Class of 1934 who knew all of the 1. telling. People who are given a serious, life-threat- he declined. individuals whose portraits he ponders. Some he knew as By now, almost every conceivable argument, pro or con, ening diagnosis deserve the truth about their condition, “I fibbed,” he softly announced. a student, some sat at his feet as he taught pathology, and regarding physician-assisted suicide has been offered, and their prognosis, and the alternatives for their care to the “What do you mean?” I asked. others were his colleagues. Most importantly, however, rebuttals attempted. The debate started long before 1997 extent they personally wish to have this information. “Last year, I gave you a check for the Student Loan he knew every one as a friend. when Oregon became the first state in the U.S. to approve Undergirding this principle is the value that honesty has Fund and told you it likely would be my last. Well, I’m Through the years, I have thought about this of this practice. For example, five years prior to this in creating relationships of trust. Without such trust, here with one more gift. It is not as much as in previous experience and marveled at Dr. Small’s resolve, even in law’s adoption, the General Conference of Seventh-day people with serious illnesses are likely to suffer even more years, but nevertheless, it is my annual gift to the Student his declining years. Many in his circumstance would Adventists approved principled guidelines titled “Care for as they sense the lack of transparency. Loan Fund.” With that he reached into his coat pocket have withdrawn—placing pen and checkbook in the the Dying.”1 These guidelines were influential when Loma As a youngster growing up on a farm in Oregon, I and pulled out a folded check and handed it to me. With desk drawer—and focused on a myriad of other things. Linda University Medical Center recently developed its remember what happened when Bessy, our neighbor, was him still standing near the doorway, I unfolded the check Obviously, that was not Dr. Small’s way. I would like to policy that opts out of participation in the provisions of diagnosed with terminal liver cancer. Most of the neigh- and looked at it. I felt that I owed it to him to do so. His think that at the very top of his “To Do” list for December California’s new law that approves of PAS. borhood knew, including the children. But we were told penmanship was still sharp and crisp, a style that I had 1996 were the words: Annual check to the Alumni My goal is to locate the discussion about PAS within never to tell Bessy. So a painful charade played out for the Association—Student Loan Fund. the context of the seven principles set forth in the final months of Bessy’s life as everyone talked about how *Dr. Thomason was an 1899 graduate of Jefferson Medical College and an affiliate member of the Alumni Association until Adventist guidelines. The reason for this approach arises wonderful her flowers would look next spring—a season posthumously named an honorary member in 1990. (Continued on page 50) from my conviction that consideration of PAS is facili- everyone knew would probably not include Bessy.

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Such deception was entirely common at that time the fear of losing independence. By listening to patients directives”—legally recognized documents that permit their dignity and their autonomy in their final months. in our culture. In fact, Thomas Percival’s remarkably and respecting their decisions, some of the inevitable patients to record their preferences, including their pref- Of course there is the common fear of pain and intense influential 1803 book on medical ethics included careful suffering at life’s end may be diminished. The obvious erence for an authorized surrogate decision-maker when suffering. There is also the widespread concern about instructions for physicians on both why and how not ethical question raised by PAS is whether or not respect the patient is no longer able to express his or her own being subjected to unwanted medical interventions once a to tell their patients the truth if that might discourage for patients’ choices includes physicians’ willingness to decisions. However, surveys seem to indicate that about person is no longer able to express her or his own decisions. them or diminish their hope.3 Thinking of this sort was assist in patients’ deliberate actions to end their lives. three fourths of our fellow citizens have not chosen to Is it possible to address these fears effectively in ways dominant in American culture until the 1970s with the Given the strong commitment to personal autonomy in fill out an advance directive. The Adventist guidelines that reject the deliberate, intentional ending of a person’s rise of the patients’ rights movement, and the 1980s when Adventist ethical thought and in American society, it is encourage people to take the time and effort needed life? My belief is that the answer is Yes. As one who has organized medicine formally included full disclosure of not difficult to understand the allure of PAS. But, as we to make their wishes known in writing prior to critical spent years as a hospice volunteer, I have long been the patient’s condition as an ethical requirement of the shall see, the Adventist guidelines go a different direction. moments at the end of life. This can be a significant aid to committed to helping patients experience quality time profession. The first principle of the Adventist guidelines family members and professional caregivers who want to as they near the end of life. This can be hard work for supports this move to truth-telling. The third principle affirms the importance of family honor the patient’s preferences. Such formal documents all involved, and it might be tempting to avoid the chal- 3. engagement in the care of persons nearing the end may also help families to avoid needless disagreements or lenges of such efforts by offering to help the patient end The second principle calls for respecting patients’ of their lives. In the words of the guidelines, “God’s plan misunderstandings among family members. his or her own life. But the convictions expressed by the 2. choices. In the words of the Adventist guidelines, is for people to be nourished within a family and a faith Adventist guidelines and my own ethical belief system “God has given human beings freedom of choice and community.” But the guidelines also recognize that not Given the strong commitment to personal autonomy understand the intentional taking of a life as something asks them to use their freedom responsibly.” This means every patient will have family members who are willing in Adventist ethical thought and in American society, people of faith have not been authorized to do. that patients who have decision-making capacity should or able to be involved in decisions about the patient’s care. be empowered to decide whether to accept or forgo In the provision of medical care, we sometimes encounter it is not difficult to understand the allure of PAS. The sixth principle calls for the alleviation of pain life-extending medical treatments. No one capable the “unaccompanied patient.” Still, the guidelines express 6. and suffering to the fullest extent possible, short of deciding for himself or herself should be forced to the value of having surrogate decision-makers who are The fourth principle makes it clear that Christian of deliberately ending the patient’s life. In the words of undergo interventions they find unacceptable. “closest” to the patient. 4. faith does not require believers “to offer or accept the guidelines, “It is a Christian responsibility to relieve Studies of patients who seek PAS suggest that the most American society has developed a number of ways medical interventions whose burdens outweigh the pain and suffering.” Experts in palliative care have much salient factor in their desire for aid in ending their lives is in which patients can establish so-called “advance probable benefits.” The guidelines add this important to offer patients and much to teach the rest of us. In the clarification: “When medical care merely preserves practice of high-tech medicine, it is sometimes easy to bodily functions, without hope of returning a patient forget the solemn mandate to relieve pain and suffering. to mental awareness, it is futile and may, in good Both the physical depths of pain and the mental depths conscience, be withheld or withdrawn.” Twenty-five years of suffering need to be addressed by people who have ago, when these words were written, they might have the knowledge, skills, and compassion to be effective been considered more controversial than they are today. caregivers. This is a duty especially incumbent on those Between then and now, several nationally prominent of us who take Jesus as our example. The mission of Loma and hotly debated cases have arisen regarding the issue Linda University and its health system is “to continue of withdrawing life-extending interventions when they the teaching and healing ministry of Jesus Christ.” And show no sign of restoring a person to a sapient state. the first virtue we name, flowing from this mission is The essence of the fourth principle is the frank recog- compassion. In practical terms, this means that we need to nition that some attempts to prolong life only prolong be among the world’s leaders in knowing how to address suffering and needlessly lengthen the dying process. The the pain and suffering of persons in their wholeness. guidelines clearly permit foregoing such interventions, either by withholding them or withdrawing them. The seventh and final principle is that of fairness, 7. with a special strategic concern for the most The fifth principle is the one that bears most directly vulnerable among us. This principle renounces unfair 5. on the practice of PAS: “Seventh-day Adventists do discrimination. In plain words the guidelines declare not practice ‘mercy killing’ or assist in suicide. They are that “care for the dying should be based on their spiritual opposed to active euthanasia, the intentional taking of and medical needs and their expressed choices rather the life of a suffering or dying person.” In earlier decades, than on perceptions of their social worthiness.” Most any this would not have been a controversial statement. But thoughtful observer is likely to notice that our society already at the time this norm was written, it was becoming has some distance to go when it comes to this principle. contested. And in the 25 years since that time, PAS has At least one of the unfortunate drivers of PAS is the fear become legal in a growing number of states, including that the patient’s family members will be impoverished the home state of Loma Linda University Health. because of the patient’s need for medical care. The There are many different reasons for this gradual shift in American culture. Many people fear the loss of (Continued on page 41)

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to Asunción. From California, they took a train to GC about traditional Adventist topics. Dr. Bailie says that’s headquarters in Washington, DC, then a ship to Buenos how he learned the most about Adventism. The Divine Thread Aires, Argentina, and finally a riverboat up the Paraná Construction of the hospital took time and required River to the Paraguayan capitol. They had made it to their much of Dr. Bailie’s attention. “It is necessary to keep a Dr. Bailie’s life of providential new home. constant check on things,” he wrote to his class in 1955. Judging by the land the church had purchased, there “They have left out doors and windows, etc. … If I don’t was plenty of work to be done before Dr. Bailie would have get an ulcer or some other psychosomatic disease before underpinning a hospital to run. “The only thing good about the prop- this is over, it will be a miracle.” By Chris Clouzet, managing editor erty,” Dr. Bailie recalls, “was that it was almost at the top of In addition, Paraguay was not a stable nation at the the highest place in Asunción that looked down over the time, and Dr. Bailie witnessed more than one “good town and the bay that comes off the Paraguay River.” old-fashioned Latin riot” near the hospital. One time, just ra E. Bailie ’52 was a missionary surgeon in Asunción, Paraguay, for While he began to oversee the construction of the before going into surgery he was alerted by police that he 18 years. One of his favorite things to tell people is that he delivered hospital, he had something else to worry about: becoming should be ready for casualties as they would be attacking Sharlene Wells in Asunción, who later became Miss America in 1985. licensed to practice medicine in Paraguay. To do so he protesting students across the street. At one point during I had to pass the exams for each course in the six-year the ensuing chaos, Dr. Bailie helped wrestle away an offi- He attended her wedding and has a signed portrait from her on which she medical school curriculum—in Spanish. Fortunately, cer—“football style”—who was prohibiting an injured inscribed “To Ira: Thanks for bringing me into the world. Love, Sharlene.” Dr. God provided Dr. Bailie a way to learn Spanish and student from entering the hospital. His actions that day Bailie also tells of meeting the president of Paraguay, General Alfredo Stroessner, familiarize himself with Paraguayan medicine. During did not go unnoticed by the students, and he wrote to his a number of times; the president of Chile, Eduardo Frei; and Prince Philip of his visit with his mother, Dr. Bailie had fortuitously run class that the hospital “enjoyed a little publicity for a few England—twice. days thereafter. They kept using my name on the clandes- These interesting tidbits are Dr. Bailie’s conversation starters, and they reveal Exposure to Loma Linda doctors and mission tine rebel radio across the river.” Ira E. Bailie ’52, longtime medical missionary in something about his influence and station as a physician in 1950s and 1960s stories at Sabbath School kindled a dream in young In spite of the obstacles Paraguay, poses for a portrait during APC 2017. Paraguay. But that’s all they are. What really matters to Dr. Bailie is what he calls and challenges, the Sanatorio (Below) Dr. Bailie shakes hands with Ira to become a small-town country doctor. Adventista de Asunción General Alfredo Stroessner, president of Paraguay, while discussing the release the “thread of divine intervention” he sees woven into By this time, his friend Jay was a sophomore medical was inaugurated on July of an ADRA shipment in the 1960s. and throughout his life by a God who has crafted his life student at the College of Medical Evangelists, and Ira into a former high school classmate who had spent time 26, 1959. It included two (Bottom) Dr. Bailie (wearing bow tie) into one beyond his “wildest dreams.” desired to follow suit. Thanks to the government’s GI Bill in Paraguay with her husband. She shared with him the medical examination rooms, and the staff of Sanatorio de Asunción Dr. Bailie says it all began when two Loma Linda allowing him to pursue these studies, he took premedical name of their doctor while there, and Dr. Bailie looked one operating room, and stand together for a photo circa 1958. University (at that time, College of Medical Evangelism) courses and applied to medical school. him up. Dr. Olmedo turned out to have trained in New ten inpatient beds. Its repu- graduates—Ernest I. Mulder ’20 and Albert A. Ehrke ’20— At first, it seemed he would not get in right away, as York and was the chair of the department of orthopedic tation began to grow, and in opened a practice in Compton, California, and became he heard that dean E. Harold Shryock ’34 had said no surgery at the National University Hospital in Asunción. time Dr. Bailie treated and his family’s doctors. The Mulders in particular were influ- one who was an Adventist for less than a year would be Dr. Bailie says the orthopedist told him, “You don’t met with a number of well- ential in young Ira’s life. The family bought the farmhouse accepted. Would he “qualify” as an Adventist? It was a have a hospital yet. While you’re working on your exams known national and interna- across from the Bailie family’s home and Jay Mulder ’49, close call for Ira—he had attended his first Bible class and and the hospital construction, why don’t you come and tional figures. Lesser-known the younger of the two Mulder boys and one year Ira’s week of prayer in the spring of 1946, his second class and join my service?” individuals were given the junior, became his good friend. The two would ride week of prayer in the fall of 1946, and was baptized in “And I did,” Dr. Bailie says. He tells of his experience same treatment, and care for horses together and were Sabbath School buddies. Mrs. December 1946. Apparently Dr. Shryock was convinced with Dr. Olmedo. one such patient even led to Mulder became “Aunt Joy” to Ira and would take the boys of Ira’s Adventism, and the country-doctor-to-be began “The first year I was learning the language and getting the construction of a new to Sabbath School and church. Ira’s mother would give medical studies in August of 1947. acquainted. But he actually gave me a certificate for two hospital in a different part of him a dime for offering, and between services Ira and Jay During medical school Ira married Clara Jackson years and he invited me to be chief resident.” the country. would head to the mom-and-pop store nearby and buy a SN’49. They had a daughter, Cheryl. During his intern- Dr. Bailie told Dr. Olmedo, “I’m sorry, I can’t do that.” soda for a nickel. They’d share the drink and then put the ship, Ira—now Dr. Bailie—and a classmate planned to “Why not?” change in the offering plate. open a practice in rural Missouri following residency. “Well, as a chief resident I would have to be here on Exposure to Loma Linda doctors and mission stories Instead, Dr. Bailie received a call from the General Saturday morning, and that’s when we have church.” at Sabbath School kindled a dream in young Ira to become Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. The church Dr. Olmedo thought for a moment and said, “Can’t a small-town country doctor. But studying at the nearby had used a 13th-Sabbath offering to purchase land in you get a dispensation from your pope?” Adventist medical school didn’t seem a likely prospect Asunción, Paraguay, and church leaders wanted Dr. “Sorry, we don’t have a pope.” for him, besides the fact that the government drafted him Bailie to oversee the construction of a hospital there and Dr. Bailie spent that first year volunteering with Dr. into military service in 1943. After serving two years in to be its medical director. Olmedo and the next two years as a resident five morn- the Army Air Forces, Ira returned to the States and began So, in late 1953, after a final visit to a mother reluctant ings a week. In the evenings he presented health lectures a job in the oil fields. He applied to La Sierra College (now to see her son leave (his father had passed away in 1945), during evangelistic series the church put on in the area University) and began his studies there in January 1946. Dr. Bailie and his family began their weeks-long journey and helped to run the slide projector during sermons

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The patient came from a German-speaking colony expansion projects, and influenced the construction of a Baptist church and somehow he found a number and “Oh, really? What year was that?” Rita’s mind was more than 200 miles southeast of Asunción. He had “an second hospital. He and Clara had raised their four chil- made a call. working now. enormous hernia.” Dr. Bailie got the man in bed, got on dren in Paraguay—Cheryl, Daryl, Karen, and Karlen L. “Yes, the church meets here today.” “1960.” the radio with White Memorial Hospital, and got some Bailie ’85. It was time to begin a new chapter. “Where is it?” Thinking it just had to have been her husband, she medications. After a successful surgery, the patient When the Bailies returned to the States they settled “It’s near the police academy.” leaned back and asked the man, “Well, do you want to see returned home. Soon, Dr. Bailie says there was an influx in Denair, California, where Dr. Bailie joined a practice Dr. Bailie got a ride and kept his eyes sharp. As they him? He’s right here. But he’s a little older.” of people coming to the hospital, most of them speaking in nearby Turlock. The practice kept him busy, but he drove around looking for helpful clues, he noticed a man As this traveling couple visited different places around German. “I had to Guten Morgen,” he says. managed to lecture around the world—South America, dressed up. the globe, the wife took with her a large bag of children’s The people from the German-speaking colony decided Russia, Eastern Europe, Asia—on cancer and the preven- “Stop,” he told the driver. He stuck his head out the clothes to distribute. After becoming acquainted with the they wanted a hospital in their area. The Sanatorio in tive benefits of the SDA lifestyle and nutritional concepts. window and said, “Adventist?” Bailies on the plane, she and her husband visited them Asunción was just beginning its own expansion project, In 1979, the GC invited Dr. Bailie to serve a relief stint “Yes.” at Scheer and left the bag of clothes for the hospital’s but Dr. Bailie and the mission president visited the distant at Scheer Memorial Hospital in Nepal. Thus began a new “Where?” nursery. Rita and Dr. Bailie marvel today at the divine location for an inspection. There were only houses and relationship with another small hospital in a faraway land. “Here.” Sure enough, there was the door, a long hall, appointment on the plane. red dirt roads surrounded by tung tree orchards. It was He found the hospital to be “poorly equipped” at the time. and the church. While at Scheer, Dr. Bailie served as medical director not a project the church could take on. But the people “It pays to dress up on Sabbath,” Rita said after Dr. and carried on with the previous administration’s said, “We’ll pay for the building if you’ll run it and staff Paraguay was not a stable nation at the time, Bailie finished telling the story during our interview for plans to expand the hospital. He oversaw collaboration it.” So they cleared the land; made an airstrip so the presi- and Dr. Bailie witnessed more than one “good this piece. Rita Norton is Dr. Bailie’s second wife. You see, between Maranatha, ADRA, and several Rotary groups dent of Paraguay, General Stroessner, could visit by C-47; besides the little things—like guiding Dr. Bailie to church from Australia and the U.S., and in November 2000 built homes for the staff; and constructed the Hohenau old-fashioned Latin riot” near the hospital. in Russia—God was working on the big things as well. Dr. the hospital inaugurated a new wing and celebrated 40 Adventist Hospital. Bailie and Rita had graduated the same year from Loma years of medical service. In 2003, the Bailies returned “It’s a beautiful place,” Dr. Bailie says of the hospital “The light for the operating room was a twisted wire Linda (Rita with her degree in medical technology). to Scheer for the official dedication of the three-story campus. He visited again in 1993. “It has a church, a with a little kettle over the light bulb. I went to town and Years later, friends of each were setting them up behind wing. Dr. Bailie was proud to present a four-wheel school, and a farm. It’s very nice.” got a motorcycle light and a battery charger and built a the scenes. They’ve been married now for 24 years. drive Toyota ambulance donated by the Turlock Sunrise As the Sanatorio in Asunción grew, the Adventist light that you could pull. … We didn’t have an anesthesia In 1999, the GC asked Dr. Bailie to serve again for Rotary Club. While in Nepal, the Bailies also enjoyed church was able to send other Loma Linda graduates machine. I did a modified radical mastectomy with a two months at Scheer Memorial Hospital while a new trekking in the Mt. Everest and Annapurna sanctuaries, to support Dr. Bailie’s work. Ophthalmologist Elwin C. ketamine IV. We did most of the surgeries either under surgeon was found. As the search passed the two-month riding elephants, and touring the home of the Dalai Lanz ’53-B was the first to join, serving from 1960 to epidural or spinal anesthesia.” Little did he know that mark, the Bailies offered to remain for two more years. Lama in Tibet. 1964. Surgeon Joseph Nozaki ’57 immediately followed, he would spend more time there over the years and be a The church accepted the offer, and the couple ended up serving from 1964 to 1971. Dr. Bailie says he learned a lot firsthand witness to the hospital’s growth. staying for more than three. Having heard news of his wife’s death, there had been of surgery working with Dr. Nozaki, who covered for him In July of 1992, Clara, Dr. Bailie’s bride of 44 years, As full-time missionaries, they were required to take some confusion in the division office, and Dr. Bailie had while he returned to the States in the late 1960s for two unexpectedly died from end-stage cardiomyopathy. “She missionary training in Kenya. On their return flight to and a half years to complete a general surgery residency had a cardiac arrest and never woke up,” he says. Yet, in the Nepal, they had another providential meeting. Rita says not been expected. He was stranded. at Loma Linda and the City of Hope. Since Dr. Bailie’s midst of tragedy, God was at work for the good of a physi- she had planned to make it a quiet trip. initial family medicine residency had been cut short due cian who loved Him—both in the small things and the big. “I was not going to be a chatty Kathy; I was going to In 2009, Dr. Bailie and his two sons returned to the to the move to Paraguay, he had also The Bailies had planned to travel to Russia together read a book,” she explains. A gentleman and his wife sat Sanatorio Adventista de Asunción for the celebration of spent the 1957–1958 school year as at the end of the month, where Dr. Bailie would conduct next to her. The man leaned over and said, “Are you on a 50 years of service and the opening of another expan- acting OB-GYN senior resident at health lectures for an evangelistic series. Since the plans tour to Nepal?” sion wing. In addition to its medical services, Dr. Bailie the White Memorial Hospital. were already set—passports, tickets, everything—Dr. “No, we live there.” says the hospital boasts lifestyle improvement programs, By 1972, Dr. Bailie had dedi- Bailie got on his plane just eight days after his wife died “Oh! Well what do you do?” cardiac rehabilitation, physical therapy, and smoking cated 18 years of his life to medical and headed to Moscow. But no one was there to meet him “My husband is a physician, and he is a surgeon cessation programs. It has its own radio station and mission work in Paraguay. He had at the airport. at a little mission hospital out of Kathmandu. Scheer health insurance program, as well as an agreement with learned a new language, strug- Having heard news of his wife’s death, there had been Memorial, it’s called.” the ministry of health to perform low-cost kidney trans- gled to transform a subpar piece of some confusion in the division office, and Dr. Bailie had And then Rita says he asked a question no one had plants and heart surgeries for those who cannot afford real estate into a highly respected not been expected. He was stranded. ever asked her during their travels. “What church is them. “It was very satisfying to see how, with the dedi- hospital, served in various church “All I knew was da and nyet,” he says. involved with this little mission hospital?” cated people who continued the work and the blessing of roles, traveled all over South He managed to get a taxi and find a hotel room on a “The Seventh-day Adventist,” she replied. God, the tiny mustard seed that was planted over 50 years America for church meetings and riverboat docked on the Moscow River. It was a Friday “And your husband is a surgeon?” ago has prospered into what it is today.” medical work, spent years in further afternoon, so the next morning he left his room to find “Yes.” For Dr. Bailie, the many indications of God’s blessing medical training, overseen hospital the church. He remembered the congregation met in a “Well, I was with the Bank of London from Portugal, in his life are not lost on him. He has a deep-felt appre- and I went to Asunción. When I was there, the British ciation for having been able to be a part of the growth of Dr. Bailie speaks at the official opening of a new medical wing at Scheer Memorial Hospital during his ambassador had surgery by a young physician at the 2003 visit. The banner behind him reads: “Dedication of Dr. Ira Bailie Medical Education Complex.” Seventh-day Adventist hospital.” (Continued on page 41)

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Mary was not a passive observer. Sitting at someone’s cannot be diagnosed, and the suffering of the innocent feet actually meant being his or her apprentice. She was takes a heavy and uneven toll on all physicians. We lose acting as a pupil, involved in the discussions that were our ability to be sympathetic to life’s everyday disappoint- To Make Man going on. (Both Mary and Martha present atypical roles ments. At home, so glad to discard our pleasant profes- for women in their society.) You can feel the tension sional demeanor, we are short-tempered. One night, after between Mary—the active participant in learning Jesus’ I had answered six pages from the hospital during dinner, message—and Martha, who created the mechanics my 4-year-old asked to call me on the phone. “You talk that enabled Jesus to spread that message. Study versus nicer to people on the phone.” When we are covering Flourish service. Spending time with God versus helping others. for a withdrawal of care, seemingly petty issues like a Learning to teach versus imparting physical comfort. spouse’s office politics or our children’s difficult home- God’s call to decrease Some use this story to divide people into two groups: work don’t get the sympathy they deserve. Jesus is calling Marys and Marthas, based on personality or spiritual to us: “Don’t get so overwhelmed doing good that you gifts. But Martha could have chosen to listen to Jesus as lose ‘what is better.’” physician burnout well. Jesus tells us, “Mary has chosen what is better, and Physicians interact not only with people possessing By Nerida Taylor Bates ’94 it will not be taken away from her.” Contemplating Jesus’ disordered minds, for whom we can fathom sympathy, message is the better choice, especially for those distracted but also the entitled and demanding, even contemptuous, All Scripture in this article comes from the New by serving others. for whom we can’t. When I have recently worshiped, I am International Version, unless otherwise indicated. This story usually leads me to a familiar rush of frus- able to see my patients as equals because God’s grace is tration. Who do you think is going to cook all that food fresh. But the optimism I feel seems to dissipate rapidly. artha was beyond busy! I can just imagine her and care for all those patients… er, disciples? Hunger and When life knocks me around, my patience for seeing from thoughts at Jesus bringing home several extra mouths fatigue are pretty basic needs to address! We physicians another’s perspective fades fast. The further from worship to feed. And then there was the family that arrived after four face an endless procession of “needs” as well: charts, I get, the more burned out I become, the less I can see my M patients, messages, and research. Who will serve these own sin, and the more I am irritated by everyone else’s. I days of chasing rumors about Jesus’ whereabouts with number of “nots”: not rushed, not cluttered, not judg- patients if I don’t? We are distracted by the schedules have never been good at seeing Christ in the angry and their paralyzed son in tow, needing food, not to mention mental. But when was the last time we were not rushed? and logistics needed to heal. I can’t hear Martha’s story demanding, but I remind myself that “while we were still washed clothes. Martha’s patience, even her compassion, Practice managers are pushing to reduce time with without feeling that she was somehow mistreated, or at sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8). It is in tending was wearing thin. Modern physicians can certainly relate patients. Turning on the computer results in being least misunderstood. Like Martha, we physicians overex- to the broken and the vegetative that I see glimpses of to Martha. Overworked, stressed from all sides, losing buried in an overwhelming pile of work. Physicians aren’t tend ourselves in our efforts to do good. After all, Jesus how God cares for us. income and respect, we’re not enjoying our jobs the way just hurried; we are harried. Most of us have long ago said, “Feed my sheep.” The biggest stressor for physicians is the expectation we used to. In fact, only half of physicians would recom- discarded the idea that we make every patient whole, but of perfection. Perfection drives us to 11:00 p.m. Medline mend their profession to an interested student.1 Half! we each have our pet issues. I have a soft spot for weary Turning on the computer results in being buried searches or nagging contemplation about a case during Burnout is a reaction to chronic stress character- new parents, struggling teens, and students building in an overwhelming pile of work. Physicians our kids’ little league games. We want to take good care ized by emotional exhaustion, a lack of personal satis- confidence. But I can’t help but feel that extra attention of our patients because being a good physician is what faction or accomplishment, and depersonalization.2 given is at my expense, at the cost of my well-being. aren’t just hurried; we are harried. defines us. This creates the fear of failure—stronger than Depersonalization is the tendency to treat people like Martha was relatively wealthy; she had the means the fear of lawsuits—that follows us home. things, to become callus to their sufferings.3 Burnout to house Jesus and his extensive followers. (Or she was How do physicians find and apply the better path of matters. Physicians who are emotionally exhausted make hospitable and organized, with an army of “church listening to Jesus? Warren Kinghorn, MD, ThD, reminds A Way Back In more mistakes at work,4 and they are more likely to cut ladies.”) Martha and Mary were not simply throwing a us: “Christians engaged in health care need to remember Perfectionism is still the engine that drives many of my back their hours,5 leaving physician shortages and putting dinner party for 13 of their closest friends. Luke 8:1–3 that […] the sick person, the dying and the mentally ill endeavors. But the more I sit at the feet of the Divine their colleagues at higher risk of burnout. describes “many others” traveling with Jesus. Who could are where Christ is.”6 Some believe finding Christ in the Physician, the more my focus moves from myself to the It has become such a crisis that the American Medical put up so many people? Where would they buy supplies? sick absolves us from sitting at Jesus’ feet, that we can problem at hand. Receiving grace lets me focus on the Association (AMA) has made physician well-being one How would they triage the curious and the disenfran- worship Christ in our patients—two every 15 minutes. issue. It teaches me to be mindful. Secular mindfulness of its goals. Well-being is not merely the lack of burnout. chised who invariably came knocking? How should the But I don’t think so. I hear Jesus saying, “The poor (sick) has been shown to decrease stress, emotional exhaus- That would be analogous to defining health as the lack costs be divided? Chaos would ensue if Martha’s role you will always have with you, and you can help them any tion, and depersonalization.7 Christ-based mindfulness, of disease. The AMA believes well-being includes profes- was abdicated. She was so deeply mired in her work, time you want” (Mark 14:7), but “Come to me, all you which offers us grace, has even more potential to combat sional satisfaction, wholeness, flourishing. Few physicians Luke says she was distracted, a sign of overwork. When who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest” burnout. Facing perfectionism means getting support. A are flourishing. We Loma Linda graduates trained under Martha asks Jesus to send out Mary, Martha doesn’t only (Matthew 11:28). cursory look at our peers leaves us feeling we are the only the motto “To Make Man Whole;” yet truth be told, many ask for help, she treats Mary like a commodity, without PHOTO: LIGHTSPRING/SHUTTERSTOCK ones not coping. Looking deeper, we find our peers are of us are not feeling very whole at the moment. regard for her feelings. “Pass the Mary, please.” Martha The Root just as burdened, and we don’t have the right to burden even blames Jesus for not caring and exaggerates that she Let’s look at the root causes of physician burnout. them more. Where do we find support? Martha’s Lesson alone has been left all the work. Sound familiar? Martha Physicians absorb the suffering of patients. This constant Call does not have an off button. Carrying a pager that A whole physician is one who is healthy, as well as a was burned out! exposure to pain that can’t be alleviated, illnesses that requires an answer within 10 minutes for a week at a time

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interrupts every part of our lives— eats slowly at our enjoyment. New theories of deci- without a diagnosis has taught me several things. Patients that our eyes are open to see it in others. We are sitting physical, social, mental, and spiri- sion-making suggest that we have a limited number of want and deserve a diagnosis. Sick people want a name beside our patients. We are sharing their sorrows—sharing tual. There are no fixed rest or play decisions we can make each day before going into energy for their evil. No amount of flourishing, or even godli- that my children did not regain their birth weight at two times. Cell phones have expanded debt, yet each patient presents with a myriad of decisions ness, compensates for bad care. Christian physicians have weeks either. It may even mean laughing at the gallows our normalcy while on call, but in in rapid-fire succession. to be good physicians. humor, the ironies of our service, with fellow providers. some ways they also increase the Since flourishing as physicians means being whole, I have also found that once I slowed down, I was Does our spirituality make a difference in our service? invasiveness. I have fielded calls healthy, and vibrant, then time with God spurs us on happier. More sleep, less hurry, more time at the feet of Would our patients notice if we spent more time with about constipation, ear aches, and in the attainment of the “mores” that benefit us: more Jesus. I may be disabled, but in many ways my well-being Jesus? A partial answer comes from an unusual source: seizures while being a Mommy on a exercise, more time not sitting, more color in our foods, has improved. interviews of the 14 winners of the AMA Foundation in Greyhound bus, in the aisles of the more meaningful friendships, more quality time with Often, physicians create a chasm between the sick Excellence Pride in Profession award. All the recipients “Worship reinstates our uniqueness supermarket, or even in the middle the kids, more clear borders between work and home. and the well that more than defines us, it protects us like said they found spirituality inordinately useful, not just and reminds us ‘we are hard pressed of my own children’s birthday Burnout prevention means taking more vacations and a talisman. As a patient, my nurses, residents, and even to understanding their patients holistically but to their on every side, but not crushed,’” Dr. parties. All the more reason to carve resting on Sabbath (even this is often stolen from health attending physicians often say, “Mrs. Bates is one of our experience of wholeness.10 Those who want to flourish Bates writes. out time to “be still, and know that care workers). pediatricians,” as if titles are forbidden on the other side seek Jesus. Sitting at His feet, our burdens are lifted. There I am God” (Psalm 46:10). Worship reinstates our uniqueness and reminds us “we of the stethoscope. Physicians are not sick. We do not we find peace to carry out into our service. There the The most intimate of physician–patient relationships are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, seek care, literally: up to 69 percent of Australian physi- Master Healer shapes us into better physicians. n are invaded with constraints imposed by managed care but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck cians do not have a primary care provider.8 Nothing ruins and the government. This goes beyond time pressures to down, but not destroyed” (2 Corinthians 4:8–9). If it was flourishing more than being sick. Endnotes specifying how many questions about family history must a checklist I would see it as just another chore for perfec- 1. Merritt Hawkins for the Physicians Foundation. “2016 Survey be asked to receive just compensation. This loss of control tionists to do. But it is not a checklist because in worship of American Physicians : Practice Patterns and Perspectives.” (September 2016). www.physiciansfoundation.org. is a major contributor to burnout. Once, after resusci- I find myself loved, receiving forgiveness, being encour- My life was going along well until one night 2. West, Colin P. et al. “Concurrent Validity of Single-Item tating an infant with respiratory syncytial virus who was aged. Time with Jesus is a space to practice the burnout death and I stopped to shake hands. Measures of Emotional Exhaustion and Depersonalization in breathing over 100 times a minute and necessitated calling buster of gratitude that enables me to appreciate life. “Tell Burnout Assessment.” Journal of General Internal Medicine. 911 for transport, I used the level five code. Surely such a God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. 27.11 (2012): 1445-1452. code was invented just for this hour of intense work. But Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds I am convinced that time with God is not solely for 3. Linzer, Mark et al. “10 Bold Steps to Prevent Burnout in General a visit from the coder a few days later illustrates the idiocy anything we can understand” (Philippians 4:6–7, NLT). our benefit. In the lobby of the Loma Linda University Internal Medicine.” Journal of General Internal Medicine. 29.1 of how codes are assessed. “Dr. Bates, from the documen- Medical Center there is a painting by Nathan Greene (2014): 18-20. tation that you provided, this visit should be coded as a A Case Study called “The Difficult Case.” The physician with his text- 4. Shanafelt, Tait D. et al “Burnout and Medical Errors Among American Surgeons.” Annals of Surgery. 251.6 (2010): 995-1000. level two. There is no past medical history; birth history My life was going along well until one night death and book open is lost in thought, and Jesus, leaning over his 5. Shanafelt, Tait D. et al. “Longitudinal Study Evaluating the and the history of present illness don’t count. And you I stopped to shake hands. We were introduced to each shoulder, points to the pertinent information in the text. Association Between Physician Burnout and Changes in didn’t say if anyone smokes at home.” other by an incompetent intern with his hands on his Every time I walk past, I look at the older gray-haired male Professional Work Effort.” Mayo Clinic Proceedings. 91.4 The struggle to interface with technology without hips muttering, “It’s not her heart. I don’t know what it is, PHOTO: ISTOCK.COM/KJEKOL doctor in his starched white coat so fervently searching (2016): 422-431. losing a sense of individuality (mine or the patient’s) is but it’s not her heart” as my ST segments sloped precip- for the answer to his patient’s suffering and think, There I 6. “Warren Kinghorn: Asking Broader Questions of Medicine.” very real. Now best practices and protocols stifle our indi- itously downward. Fortunately, death did not embrace am. How did the artist create such a good likeness of me?9 Faith & Leadership. 25 Mar 2013. Web 2 Aug 2016. viduality and erode our creativity. The loss of autonomy me, but being the one wearing the skimpy patient gown For most of us, God-given insight doesn’t come on www.faithandleadership.com/qa/warren-kinghorn-asking- demand but tends to wake us from sleep at 2:00 a.m. broader-questions-medicine. 7. Fortney, Luke et al. “Abbreviated Mindfulness Intervention for That fervent prayer, “God, please don’t let me kill anyone Job Satisfaction, Quality of Life, and Compassion in Primary today” uttered on countless sleepy mornings is answered Care Clinicians: A Pilot Study. Annals of Family Medicine. 11.5 endeavors such as music, painting, or photography. If it isn’t in a myriad of ways. Many are the times sitting in front (2013): 412-420. Tips for Managing Burnout illegal, unethical, or immoral and it contributes to your overall of a child I open my mouth to say “I don’t know what 8. McCall, L. et al. “Preventive health behaviour among general By Barbara Couden Hernandez, PhD, happiness, then do it! this is” and a diagnosis comes out instead. There are the practitioners in Victoria.” Australian Family Physician. 28.8 Director of Physician Vitality and professor Second, on-the-spot strategies are needed to reduce awkward, sacred times when we have healed miracu- (1999): 854-857 physiologic and emotional arousal at work. Take a conflict lously and come to realize we have felt the impalpable, 9. The author is a middle-aged female who never wears a white of medical education at LLU coat, and as for gray hair, only her hairdresser knows for sure! management or assertiveness class so you can say what you recalled things we have not been taught, and repaired 10. Meldrum, Helen. “Humanitarian Physicians’ Views on ow do we enhance resilience and manage burnout? Both need without harming others. Monitor yourself for indicators of the unfixable. These realizations are baffling. Why here? Spirituality.” Implicit Religion. 15.2 (2012): 167-180. Hlong-term and short-term strategies are required to be at increasing emotional strain. Take five minutes to go outside or Why now? Why this one and not that? Ultimately, these our best. First, we need to build activities into our schedules to a window to look at the sky and calm yourself, or close your experiences are humbling. They drive me to my knees, that support our emotional reserve that can offset the stress eyes and take a few slow breaths. Carry a scripture verse in your reminded that God is the Master Healer. Dr. Bates, FAAP, practiced general pediatrics for at work: expressing gratitude, reflecting on your calling as a pocket and refer to it often, reflecting that it is the Almighty who eight years in South Bend, Indiana, before returning physician, daily meditation and prayer, a yoga or tai chi class, holds you up, cares for your patients, and directs your steps. n The End of the Matter—Or the Beginning as faculty to Loma Linda University. In between and investing in your family relationships. Consider trying I believe that for physicians to be whole, we have to be mothering three teenagers, she loves to travel, to get regular exercise, go hiking, and engage in creative Dr. Hernandez can be reached at [email protected] or 909-558-6780. broken. We have to be wounded by sin and suffering so interior decorate, and design costumes.

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1. Hubert C. Watkins ’62 (left) enjoys a conversation with fellow alumnus and Gospel Outreach exhibitor Carl L. Bauer ’61. 2. Sharon S. Sung ’79-A (left) laughs with others at her table before the start of the Sunday Alumni Luncheon. 3. John K. Testerman ’80-B raises a question during Friday’s bioethics panel discussion on palliative care. 4. The bioethics panel—Helen Staples- Evans, DNP; Mark E. Reeves ’92; Lyndon Edwards, MBA, MHS; Randy Roberts, DMin, MDiv, MA; and Gina J. Mohr ’96; with Gerald Winslow, PhD, facilitating—are specks at the front of the well-attended session in the Damazo Amphitheater. 1 (Above) Senior pastor of the LLU Church, Randy Roberts, speaks for the Sabbath morning service at the Drayson Center. This year, APC coincided with LLUH’s One Homecoming weekend, for which alumni from all LLU schools were invited. (Photo contributed by LLUH.) (Below) Kenneth L. Kelln ’64 (left) and Lee Crane SD’62, MPH’83, share a conversation during APC registration on Friday. 2 3 APC 2017 in Review March 3–6, 2017 By Karl P. Sandberg ’74, contributing editor

attended the 2017 Alumni Postgraduate Convention in March of this year. It was a good experience. The convention was a blessing to me professionally, educationally, spiritually, physically, and emotionally. I with some of the non-medical people I 4 I was blessed professionally because I was blessed spiritually with the have known over the years in SoCal. LLU is my alma mater. The name “Loma morning devotionals and lecture on physi- The APC Gala was well done and it was Linda University” is emblazoned on the cian wholeness by Ted Hamilton ’73-A and clear that a lot of work had gone into it. diploma on my wall. I want to be proud just by being on campus. There is a much My hat is off to Jon R. Kattenhorn ’74 for of my medical school, and it was good to different vibe to a conference at Loma his work coordinating the program. My see the many advances being made on the Linda compared to conferences elsewhere. wife and I were enthralled and entertained campus and in the curriculum and the I was blessed physically because the with the great talent demonstrated by LLU outreach of LLUSM. weather was magnificent, and this enabled medical students. I was blessed educationally because of me to do a lot of walking—all over the All in all, it was a great trip down the plethora of good, up-to-date lectures campus—from the Centennial Complex to memory lane with pleasant surprises in available to me. From the Cardiology the hospital, to the market and bookstore, the present and tempting glimpses into the Symposium on Thursday to the outstanding to the Drayson Center, and through the future. I think we’ll do it again next year. n plenary lectures on various topics; from the neighborhoods surrounding the campus. It research papers right up to the rapid-fire, was amazing to see the changes that have Dr. Sandberg is in general practice anything-goes family medicine update taken place since I was a student at LLU. in Ola, Arkansas, and works as an by Hobart H. Lee, MD, on Monday, I was I was blessed emotionally seeing ER/hospitalist on the side. He is in blessed with valuable knowledge and old friends, past professors, colleagues, a Christian country music band that insight related to my chosen profession. spouses, and classmates. I also hooked up plays regularly for church.

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1 Class of 1947 Left to right: James H. Nelson, Robert D. Mitchell, Gold and Silver Year Honor Classes George J. Wiesseman, Lee J. Richards, Francis Y. Lau, Elmer Lorenz

2 Class of 1952 Left to right: George L. Juler, Roy V. Jutzy, Ira E. Bailie

3 Class of 1982 Left to right: Thomas R. Knutson, Daniel L. Bouland, Beth L. Drake, Erin G. Stone, Kathleen M. Lau, Theodore A. Hittle, Melinda S. Skau, Constance C. Casebolt, Randell S. Skau, Leilani C. Norton, Bradley L. Baum, Sherrie D. Yhip, Jonathan G. Erich, Sharon K. Riesen, Thomas 1 th A. Jones (behind), Mary L. Spencer-Smith, Class of 1947 | 70 Anniversary Class E. Lawrence Spencer-Smith, Linda Irene Wat, Karen S. Fairchild, Darryl D. Tan, Randall L. Tan, Karen S. Ulloth, Ronald D. Woodard, Keith Cheng

Class of 1967 | 50th Anniversary Did your class take (Standing, L to R) Jon K. Plummer, Glenn W. Owens, John W. Mortensen, (Sitting, L to R) James J. Couperus, Ronald E. Bush, Owen S. Harris, a photo together at David Wittner Bailey, Yasutsugu Yanami, Stephen M. Jaffe, Robert O. Herbert L. Domke, Melvin H. Lake, H. David Specht, John H. Lowe, David Rausch, Gerald W. Marsa, Jack W. Johnson, Arnold Richard Hudson, E. Mysko, Kenneth W. Melashenko, Michael J. Weber, Jay M. Beams, APC? Share it with Ogbonna Chinwah, Darrell J. Ludders, Anton N. Hasso, Douglas A. Mack, Robert K. Henrichsen alumni on the Alumni Jerold E. Beeve, Gerald A. Kirk, Helgi Heidar, Finn Hestdalen, William O. Smith, William C. Buss, Roland E. Lonser, Jon A. Cutting, Douglas J. Wear Association website at www.llusmaa.org. Go to Media and click Photo Gallery to upload your photos. 2 Class of 1952 | 65th Anniversary Class

Class of 1992 | 25th Anniversary (Standing, L to R): Kevin B. Strom, John E. Stabel, Denis J. Cline, Matthew B. (Sitting, L to R): Steven L. Miller, Julio Narvaez, Evelyn B.I. Choo, Alan K. Underwood, Jeffrey J. Ing, Lena S. Lee, Leonard Caputo, Alisa A. Ladringan Anzai, Shing C. Chung, Angela McIntosh-Martin, Elizabeth B. Smith, Alice Roda, Charles Arlin Richert (behind), Sofronio A. Basical, Catherine A. Tan, L. Roszyk, Marigold B. Nabong-Verzosa, Kristina E. Kang Lee, Michelle Stephen S. West (behind), Aileen L. Kirby, Daniel J. Tambunan, Donald S. H.L. Loh, Scott R. Kemmerer Chang, Randall I. Aybar, Ernest J. Buck, Ranil R. Ninala, Gregory D. Dietrich, 3 Class of 1982 | 35th Anniversary Class Leslie C. Baluyot, Bradley D. Tym

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1. S. Charles Knapp ’62 thanks his peers for selecting him as an honored alumnus because it was an acknowledgment that his “unusual career has been worthwhile and is judged as worthy.” 2. From left, Justin McAuliffe (SD’19), Heidi Reich ’17, Talisa Jackson ’17, and Erica McAuliffe ’17 perform a compilation of songs from the film “La 1 2 La Land.” 3. The Riverside Convention Center hall 1. Jeffrey C. Kuhlman ’87 speaks at 1 2 where 500 alumni and friends attend the Monday’s plenary session about his 2017 APC Gala. experience as physician to the president. 4. The precise moment the flash fires 2. Ogbonna Chinwah ’67 and his wife, 3 during H. Roger Hadley’s ’74 selfie with Chioma, enjoy the 1967 class reunion. Class of 2017 president Kate Phelps ’17 3. E.A. “Billy” Hankins ’64 gleans some following her presentation of the class gift to the School of Medicine. information from the registration desk. 3 4. David J. Puder ’10 presents at Sunday’s Otolaryngology Symposium. 5. Anton N. Hasso ’67 (left) accepts the gavel 4 of Alumni Association presidency from 5 immediate past president Dr. Reeves. 6. Raja Dhalla ’97 focuses on the monitor display as he scans a “patient” during Friday’s musculoskeletal ultrasound workshop. 7. Tamara L. Thomas ’87 (left) and Karen Muffy Piper ’87 enjoy catching up in between plenary sessions Sunday. 8. Jon Cutting ’67, his daughter Meaghan Alice Balli ’98 (pointing), and Maryvonne Mack (Douglas ’67) examine the 1967 class portrait roster at 6 the class’ reunion. Iner Sheld-Ritchie Presidential Award 7 8 Takkin Lo ’86 and Roger D. Seheult ’00 The presidential award is granted to individuals of exemplary character and commitment to the vision and mission of the Alumni Association.

r. Lo has served on every committee Dr. Seheult has also served on every Dof the Alumni Association, including Alumni Association committee and as a term as president in 2004–2005. He is president in 2007–2008, just seven years passionate about the APC Governing Board after graduating. He began serving on the and has served as its chair, as well as chair APC Governing Board in 2009 and has for the scientific program and technical been president since 2010. He, too, is a exhibits committees. For the past three great supporter of his alma mater and this years, he has enthusiastically moderated organization. the APC plenary sessions. He remains A sincere thank you to both deserving deeply supportive of his alma mater and gentlemen on behalf of the Alumni this Association and lives in Hawaii. Association. Your support is invaluable.  Mark E. Reeves ’92 (left) presents the Iner 2017 AIMS Global Service Award: Read about awardees Donald C. Sheld-Ritchie Presidential Award to Takkin Fahrbach ’55 and John L. Nerness ’63 on page 36. Lo ’86 (center) and Roger D. Seheult ’00 at the 2017 APC Gala.

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t the 2017 Alumni Postgraduate Convention (APC) Gala on March 5, A neuroradiologist Anton N. Hasso ’67 The received the Alumni Association’s highest award: Alumnus of the Year. A few years ago, Dr. Hasso wrote in this magazine that the best advice he’d ever received was to “never look back, but use your past experience to help you look forward and solve future problems that Imager come your way” (May–August 2013). The extraordinary path of Dr. Hasso’s life and medical career suggests he has taken this lesson to heart. And yet, perhaps he has occa- Alumnus of the Year: sionally “looked back” on his incredible life’s journey, if only to be reminded of Whom he has followed. Anton N. Hasso ’67 Dr. Hasso was born the son of a Seventh-day Adventist Christian merchant in Iraq. Yes, his father By Chris Clouzet, managing editor was an Adventist Christian in Iraq. Ask Dr. Hasso about Anton N. Hasso ’67 makes his remarks after receiving the Alumnus of the Year Award at the 2017 APC Gala. it sometime; it is a fascinating story. In summary, his grandmother, father, and a handful of other relatives—all raphy helped sway him toward the field of radiology. He Francisco to learn about the emerging area of MRI. counsel to these budding physicians and knows where originally Jacobites who converted to Protestantism and completed a residency at the White Memorial Medical Besides his clinical duties, he wrote, conducted research, many of their careers have led. Now as he seems to finally who were living in Mosul—came to believe the unique Center in 1971 and married fellow radiologist Peggy lectured around the world, and increased the collabora- be easing toward the downward slope of his own career, SDA truths shared with them by a visiting German Fritzsche ’66. (Dr. Fritzsche was the 2008 Alumna of the tion across specialties of medicine at Loma Linda. he has taken to providing his expertise to the treatment pastor. As they became friends, the pastor suggested to Year. She passed away in 2009.) Dr. Hasso then began a In 1996, Dr. Hasso transitioned to become chair of of children with rare lesions. For about seven years he’s Dr. Hasso’s father that it was time he found a wife—and number of years in further specialization with a fellow- radiological sciences at UC Irvine. To this day he serves volunteered with the Vascular Birthmarks Foundation that he happened to have a lovely niece who was a nurse ship in diagnostic and cardiovascular radiology at Loma there as director of the neuroradiology fellowship, and has been able to satisfy his academic background in Switzerland. Thus it came to be that young Tony—as Linda. This was followed by a special fellowship in professor of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery, with unusual cases as well as play an important role in he is called by his family—grew up speaking German, neuroradiology at UCLA and a postdoctoral fellowship and director of neuroimaging research and development. improving the way of life for children around the globe French, and English in an Adventist Iraqi home. in orbital and ENT radiology at the Foundation A. de Throughout the course of Dr. Hasso’s distinguished by contributing toward correct diagnoses and treatment. As a boy, Tony witnessed his father’s support of the Rothschild in Paris. academic career, more than $3 million in research grants Though he expects to retire in a year or two, Dr. building of the Dar es-Salaam Adventist Hospital in In 1974, Dr. Hasso accepted a teaching position at and awards have been designated to his research teams. Hasso continues to forge ahead. He is a busy Alumni Baghdad, where at least three Loma Linda physicians Loma Linda to work under Mel Judkins ’47, who served He has held over ten visiting professorships around the Association president, frequently chairing and attending spent time in practice. This “tradition of medicine,” as he as chair of radiology at the time (and was also an Alumnus country and served as a reviewer on more than a dozen meetings, whether virtually or in person. Though the refers to it, sparked Tony’s interest in medicine as a boy of the Year in 1972). Dr. Judkins had been trained in editorial boards. He has authored or co-authored more Association faces pivotal decisions concerning its future, and eventually led to multiple siblings, cousins, and other Sweden, where neuroradiology was its own department, than 150 refereed articles and contributed to dozens of Dr. Hasso is optimistic about the plans that can be made relatives studying at Loma Linda. and he gave Dr. Hasso his own neuroradiology section books, chapters, and abstracts. now to ensure its success. For his part, Tony completed secondary studies at and team—which included Joseph R. Thompson ’64 In addition to his academic work, he has held a number Loma Linda and the Alumni Association are fortu- Middle East College in Beirut, Lebanon, an SDA school. and David B. Hinshaw ’71—at Loma Linda. They bene- of professional leadership roles, including president of nate to have Dr. Hasso in their corner. And though Dr. His father then sent him to the U.S. to study business at fited greatly from Dr. Judkins’ reputation with imaging the American Society of Neuroradiology, the California Hasso follows the advice he was given long ago to “look La Sierra College (now University). Without “union” or equipment manufacturers, who would build or alter their Radiological Society, the Western Neuroradiological forward,” he isn’t afraid to pause and reflect on where “missionary” in the name, the elder Hasso deemed La Sierra machines to match Judkins’ instruction. “Because if they Society, the American Society of Head and Neck God has led—from Iraq, to La Sierra, to Loma Linda, a school safe from the critical eyes of the Iraqi government could sell to Judkins, they could sell around the world,” Radiology, the American Roentgen Ray Society, and now and onward. Accepting his award at the APC Gala, he of the 1950s, which may not have otherwise believed the Dr. Hasso says. His section was often one of the first to the Alumni Association of Loma Linda University School acknowledged that his professional career has been split young man would return to work in Iraq. The family’s plan use innovative imaging technology. of Medicine. He has also served in various positions in evenly between Loma Linda and UCI—just over 20 years was for Tony to return and work with his father, but Iraq Dr. Hasso’s autonomy and access to the best equip- many other societies, committees, and boards. A longtime at each. “But,” he said, “people still know me as a Loma experienced three revolutions around that time, and in ment at Loma Linda, plus his unique combination of and generous supporter of his alma mater in Loma Linda, Linda person and a Loma Linda graduate. And I’m very, the end Tony was able to pursue his dream of medicine. neuroradiology and head and neck radiology training, he is also an active triple diamond perpetual member and very proud of that.” He caught up on his premedical requirements and was positioned him to be at the forefront of both specialties, prior Honored Alumnus (2011) of this Association. As are we, Dr. Hasso. As are we. n accepted into Loma Linda. (An elder sister, Ella Haddad, and he became one of the first to integrate the two fields “The most satisfying experience as a physician has DrPH, MPH, and younger sister, Serena H. Tonstad ’79-A, in his research and writing. In addition to his role as been my teaching experience,” Dr. Hasso says, reflecting Chris Clouzet is the managing editor of the Alumni also became Loma Linda alumni and faculty.) director of neuroradiology at Loma Linda, he also served on his career. On average, he has taught more than half JOURNAL. He appreciates trail running, reading, and Upon completing his medical degree and internship, as professor of radiology, otolaryngology, and head and a dozen residents and one neuroradiology fellow every the serial comma. Someday he wants to live beneath Dr. Hasso’s background and keen interest in photog- neck surgery. In 1986, he took a sabbatical at UC San year since 1974. He was often instrumental in providing some redwoods.

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and senior staff. After a residency in aerospace medicine, been involved with a number of other committees and he served as a NASA support physician for Apollo 11. associations in his field. His research activities, presen- He was involved in bioengineering research and devel- tations, and published papers number in the dozens. A opment in aviation safety. In the 1980s, his responsibil- cancer survivor himself, Dr. Kirk and his wife, Cherie, ities included medical support and diplomatic medical live in Redlands. logistics negotiations in the Middle East. He served in Desert Storm and received numerous military awards James J. Couperus ’67 and badges. Since retiring from the military, Dr. Knapp Following an internal medicine residency and a fellow- has founded five successful businesses. He and his wife, ship in infectious diseases at Loma Linda, Dr. Couperus Mary, live in North Carolina. served two years as chief of medicine and laboratory officer at the Naval Hospital in Oak Harbor, Washington. William O.T. Smith ’67 He practiced medicine in Tennessee, California, and As an instructor for the U.S. Army, Dr. Smith devel- Oregon before joining the faculty of infectious diseases oped the first computer-assisted teaching program in the at Loma Linda in 1979. He has dedicated his career to the Army Medical Department. He took an anesthesiology school ever since. residency at the LA County Harbor General Hospital and Dr. Couperus has held numerous faculty and admin- LA Children’s Hospital. Moving to Tennessee, he became istrative positions, including associate professor of medi- head of the School of Anesthesia at Madison Hospital. cine, medical director of hospital epidemiology, head of The school eventually became the Middle Tennessee infectious diseases, and chair of the Infection Control School of Anesthesia and is the only free-standing Committee. He has served on many boards and commit- fully-accredited graduate institution for nurse anesthetist tees, including the admissions committee, the executive training in the U.S. At his retirement in 2006, Dr. Smith committee, and the bylaws committee. He was twice Above are five of the six honored alumni, plus the Alumnus of the Year, recognized at the 2017 APC Gala on March 5. From had trained nearly 1,000 CRNAs—more than any physi- recognized by his senior internal medicine residents for left are Helgi Heidar ’67, S. Charles Knapp ’62, William O.T. Smith ’67, Anton N. Hasso ’67 (the Alumnus of the Year), cian in American history. his outstanding contributions to the program. He and his Gerald A. Kirk ’67, and James J. Couperus ’67. Albert B. Crum ’57-aff was unable to attend and does not appear in the photo. In 1981, Dr. Smith founded Holiday Seminars, Inc., wife, Cheryl, reside in Redlands. which has since provided continuing education credits for 15,000 anesthesia practitioners at locations around Albert B. Crum ’57-aff (not pictured) 2017 Alumni Association Honored Alumni the globe. He retired from clinical practice six years ago After two years of medical school at Loma Linda, Dr. and served as president of Holiday Seminars until 2014. Crum went on to graduate from Harvard Medical School ach year the Alumni Association selects just a few individuals to recognize from the more than He and his wife, Bonnie, life in Madison, Tennessee. in 1957. Following service in the U.S. Air Force, he 8,000 living alumni. Upon receiving nominations from the alumni body, the list is taken to an completed a psychiatric residency at Columbia University evaluation committee and narrowed down. The final selection is voted upon in the fall by the Gerald A. Kirk ’67 in 1963. He served as medical director of Psychiatric E Following his internship, Dr. Kirk was a missionary physi- Services International and was a consultant to a number presidents council. This year, six honored alumni were comprises 17 centers in six states. In 1995, Dr. Heidar took cian in Ethiopia. Military service took him to Alaska, of well-known figures around the world. chosen, and we want to thank them for their contributions a mini fellowship at Gimbel Eye Centre in Canada. He where from 1970 to 1972 he served in the Indian Health In 1987, he completed a master’s degree in neurosci- to medicine and for embodying the mission of the Alumni helped modernize the eye department at Montemorelos Service. Returning to Loma Linda, he took a radiology ence from New York University, continuing on as clinical Association and the School of Medicine. The following University and twice taught phacoemulsification cata- residency and began a “study tapes” ministry. Over time professor of management sciences and behavioral sciences brief biographies appear in the order the awardees are ract surgery in China. In 1998, he founded Laser Vision it became known as Pine Knoll Publications and at its there for 25 years. In 2000, he published a book about his standing in the photo above. Specialists in Olympia, where he performed refractive peak was distributing more than 1,000 pieces of material precept method of stress relief: “The 10-Step Method surgery. He and his wife, Drusilla, are now retired in a month to missionaries posted around the world. of Stress Relief.” That same year Dr. Crum founded The Helgi Heidar ’67 Chehalis, Washington. In 1975, Dr. Kirk joined the faculty of nuclear radiology ProImmune Company, which produces immune-en- Raised in Iceland, Dr. Heidar taught in the Seventh-day at Loma Linda. Three years later he became director of hanced dietary supplements based on a 2003 patent of his. Adventist school system there and took his training in S. Charles Knapp ’62 the department, a position he maintains today. He has Dr. Crum and his wife, Rosa, were unable to attend the business and school administration in the U.S. before With his eyes set on becoming a missionary surgeon after served as chair of the Radiation Safety Committee and gala. The couple lives in New York.n pursuing medicine at Loma Linda. He spent three years medical school, Dr. Knapp was instead drafted by the U.S. in the U.S. Public Health Service and then returned to Army in 1963. As a battalion surgeon he directed medical Watch videos about Do you know an alumnus Loma Linda for an ophthalmology residency. Three years civic action projects in Central and South America. Due Honored Alumni Videos: Awardee Nominations: the 2017 honored alumni and Alumnus of the Year, who deserves recognition? Nominate awardees for of private practice led to an interest in the intra ocular to circumstances out of his control, he remained in the including acceptance remarks, at www.llusmaa.org. 2018 online at www.llusmaa.org/page/nominate. The lens and further training in Holland in 1976. Army, a move that led to an eclectic and nontraditional Videos of past awardees are also available. deadline for nominations is August 21, 2017. In 1985, Dr. Heidar cofounded the Pacific Cataract career in medicine. and Laser Institute, the first ophthalmic outpatient During his distinguished military career of nearly Save the Date: Mark your calendars for the 86th APC and 2nd LLUH One Homecoming March 2–5, 2018. eye surgery center in Washington. The institute now 30 years, Dr. Knapp held key roles, including command

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numerous mission trips to countries all over the world, including the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nepal, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Peru, and the Dominican Republic. In Cambodia, he was confronted by commandos on the way to a clinic in a remote border village near the “killing fields.” For 22 consecutive years, he was a relief physician at the Guam SDA Clinic. During trips to Kenya, he introduced his three granddaughters to mission work. Dr. Fahrbach viewed his life as but a modest return on the invest- ment made in him by others. He and his wife, Alice, were married 63 years until her death in 2012. Sadly, Dr. Fahrbach died recently on April 9, 2017, during production of this issue (his obituary appears Dr. Fahrbach examines a patient during a short- on page 48). The Fahrbachs had four children together, three of term mission trip to Kenya in 2011. whom are doctors or nurses today. John L. Nerness ’63 Born in Malaysia, Dr. Nerness narrowly escaped a Japanese bombing as he and his missionary parents fled to the United States at the beginning of World War II. He later graduated from Far Eastern Academy in Singapore before completing premedical studies at what is now Andrews University. At medical school in Loma Linda, Dr. Nerness signed During the 2017 AIMS Mission Symposium on March 4, 2017, Drs. Fahrbach (left) and Nerness, seated, are surrounded by on as a deferred mission appointee. After graduating in students and residents, some of whom are currently enrolled in the deferred mission appointee program. 1963, he was called to serve in Japan. Relocating to the island nation, he spent a year of intense study and prayer before passing the medical exam in Japanese. Serving at Tokyo Adventist Hospital, he shared the story of his 2017 AIMS Global Service Awardees family’s escape from Japanese bombs and was able to for labor and delivery. He also joined trips to fishing t the AIMS Meeting and Mission Symposium on Sabbath, March 4, 2017, Donald C. Fahrbach ’55 promote an attitude of forgiveness. He took a residency villages where medical staff held clinics. and John L. Nerness ’63 were recognized with the AIMS Global Service Award for their dedicated in obstetrics and gynecology in Loma Linda and returned Eventually returning to the United States, Dr. Nerness mission service. The large meeting space was full of former and present medical missionaries, to Tokyo to help upgrade the obstetrics department. His practiced for a number of years in North Carolina. He A work was instrumental in instituting epidural anesthesia occasionally returned to Tokyo to assist the obstetrics current deferred mission appointees, AIMS members and to their God, and AIMS is pleased to have honored them department and participated in mission assignments leadership, and many friends and family members. Both with the award. Read more about the two missionaries in to Guam SDA Clinic. In 1990, he began practicing men have lived inspirational lives of service to others and the following brief biographical sketches. emergency medicine in Florida, which he did until retiring in 2012. He and his wife, Yvonne, live in Apopka, Donald C. Fahrbach ’55 Florida. They have four children and 10 grandchildren.n After serving as a conscientious objector in World War II, Dr. Fahrbach (Left) John L. Nerness ’63 (second from right) enjoys a meal attended what is now Andrews University. Following medical school, he with hospital staff at Kobe Adventist Hospital, one of the began his medical practice in Cleveland, Georgia. In 1966, he accepted a Japanese hospitals where he served. (Above) While serving in call by the General Conference to serve at Benghazi Adventist Hospital in Japan, Dr. Nerness (far right) poses with medical staff during Libya. An eventful term included the opening of a new hospital, a sudden a local mission trip to a Japanese fishing village. military evacuation from the country after the Six-Day War in 1967, and the miraculous survival of his daughter after an injury caused by old World War II munitions. The AIMS Report is developed by the Association of International Medical Returning to the U.S. in 1969, Dr. Fahrbach settled in Munising, Services. A part of the Alumni Association, it is an organization dedicated to the Michigan, where he practiced for more than 40 years. He served on promotion of international health.

www.aims.llusmaa.org Donald C. Fahrbach ’55 performs surgery at Benghazi Adventist Hospital in Libya during his term as a medical missionary.

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was successfully raised to purchase the brand new equip- ment. We are so thankful that we now have proper chairs whose hydraulics function. These three new chair-stand units have made a significant difference in our clinic set up. Doctors’ stools that adjust upward and downward have been helpful in allowing improved posture during long clinic days. A fresh paint job, replacement porcelain tiling, and brand new equipment have truly given our Fast Lane a facelift. Even our outpatient department and optical lane have undergone renovations that enable our services to look more up-to-date and presentable. Through capital gained from patients who have been able to pay over the last several years, in addition to significant other donations that have come for equip- ment or renovations, we have been able to upgrade much of our infrastructure and equipment. We have seen our eye hospital grow more beautiful each day. Digital visual acuity charts were installed in all patient assessment rooms—a sharp contrast to the paper charts we once used. A refurbished visual field machine and a brand new corneal topographer were installed, and a new optical (Above) The sun sets beyond a statue of Jesus healing the blind man, located in front of Lusaka Eye Hospital. (Opposite page) display center was built. New ophthalmic equipment made possible by donations. (Photos contributed by the author.) In parallel with the upgrades in its physical appear- ance, the hospital’s overall health has improved, both financially and in terms of human resources. The $150,000 debt burden it once had has been eliminated Bringing Sight to the Blind with a combination of grace (debt forgiveness) as well as hard work. Many patients continue to flock in for eye care and surgeries. Our charity outreach activities A Lusaka Eye Hospital Equipment Update remain strong: catering to the poverty-stricken cataract blind population in outlying villages who are incapable By Janie Yoo ’06 of paying for the services that enable them to see again. We still have a long way to go, but we praise God that we t was a simple appeal. In January 2015, a short article in this journal highlighted the need to outfit are making progress. the Lusaka Eye Hospital—a reputable Seventh-day Adventist health care institution in Zambia— We are so thankful to all our prayer warriors and with modern ophthalmic equipment. Since the hospital’s founding in 2001, the medical equipment supporters, especially those alumni, Medical Auxiliary I members, and friends who have contributed to Lusaka had not been regularly updated because of the financial The rise of health care competitors in the cities—often Eye Hospital’s projects. We pray that the name of Jesus and managerial struggles the institution faced, and it for-profit institutions with modern buildings and equip- Christ be lifted up as patients continue to seek out our was becoming obsolete. ment—has forced our mission institutions to step up their hospital for eye care in Zambia. We ask for your continued When we think of mission work and mission hospitals game lest they be left behind. No longer can we rely upon prayers as we soldier on with Him in bringing physical in Africa, it is easy to assume that the norm is second- the name and reputation of our Seventh-day Adventist and spiritual healing to the blind. n hand, near-obsolete, worn-down equipment, infrastruc- church. Unless we raise the standards in our institutions, ture, and consumables. “Junk for Jesus” is often donated our footprint in the health care ministry worldwide will to “missions” without a second thought. For example, in continue to diminish. At the time of this article’s writing, Dr. Yoo served eye care, owl-rimmed glasses from the 1950s are donated That is why Lusaka Eye Hospital launched an appeal as chief of medical staff at Lusaka Eye Hospital. with the assumption that they will be well-received. In two years ago for assistance with purchasing new She was one of 25 ophthalmologists and the only some African village areas this may be true, but in the ophthalmic chair-stand units for the “Fast Lane” (an actively practicing corneal surgeon in Zambia. She cities it is becoming necessary to remain current with area of the hospital intended to attract individuals of and her husband, Paul SD’08, served six years in trends and fashions. Modernity and cutting-edge items a higher socio-economic status) and the optical lane. Zambia and are relocating to the island of Kauai, are appreciated, even sought after. AIMS spearheaded this fundraising project, and $30,000 Hawaii, with their three young children.

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cases have been filed this year against physicians who SDA Guidelines and PAS saved the lives of patients in contravention of their own (Continued from page 17) An Intellectual Journey Through or family members’ wishes.1 principle of fairness bids us work for a society in which For Gorsuch, one of the most difficult aspects of the issue this kind of fear is diminished if not entirely eliminated. lies in cases where there is a surrogate decision maker—as the Legal Landscape of PAS when relatives request the withdrawal of life support or The debates regarding PAS will continue. Indeed, they parents elect to refuse treatment for sick children. He cites are likely to intensify. As they do, it will be helpful to be By Donna L. Carlson ’69, associate editor numerous cases where, acting on the belief that parents guided by carefully chosen principles that go beyond the can be trusted to act in the best interests of their children, single issue of PAS in order to consider it from the wider he day I finished reading his book, the author of “The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia,” courts have allowed parents to refuse ordinary life-saving perspective of comprehensive “whole person” care. n Neil Gorsuch, was preparing to take the oath of office as the 113th justice of the United States treatment for children with Down syndrome. Supreme Court. The book, published 11 years ago and based on his graduate dissertation at Gorsuch concludes that the ability to foresee that Endnotes T someone will die without treatment is not the same as 1. The full statement of “Care for the Dying” is available at this Oxford University, is a detailed study of the history, like Cornell University neurologist Foster Kennedy and harboring an intention to make the person dead by with- web address: news.adventist.org/en/all-news/news/go/1998- 03-30/a-statement-of-consensus-on-care-for-the-dying. religious and ethical roots, and legal responses of English lawyers like Yale graduate Madison Grant, both of whom holding it. The distinction between withdrawing treatment Accessed May 22, 2017. and American courts to the thorny issues identified in were active in the Euthanasia Society of America, and in accord with patient wishes and intentional administra- 2. Ecclesiastes 3:2, multiple versions. the title. With an undergraduate degree from Columbia, both of whom argued that society has a duty to kill defec- tion of drugs with intent to kill is of ultimate ethical impor- 3. Thomas Percival, “Percival’s Medical Ethics.” (South Yarra, a law degree from Harvard, and a doctorate in legal tive children. Gorsuch quotes the exhortation of Clarence tance and, for Neil Gorsuch the judge, legally dispositive. Victoria, Australia: Leopold Classic Library, 2016). philosophy from Oxford, it’s hard to imagine someone Darrow, defense counsel in the Scopes Trial: “‘Chloroform This book, detailed and heavily footnoted, is a deep better qualified to address the questions he raises. unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown dive but also an important and readable study for any Dr. Winslow is director for the Center for Christian Gorsuch’s clear writing and careful tone not only to beasts that are no longer fit to live.’” educated lay person, medical student, physician, lawyer, or Bioethics and professor of religion at LLU, special- frame complex issues, they also frame a window through The middle section of the book is devoted to an exam- theologian who has a serious interest in the subject matter izing in biomedical ethics and the relationship of which the reader glimpses a ination of legal arguments based on various ethical and and who wishes to take a thorough intellectual journey social ethics to health policy. He was previously well-furnished legal mind. His through the sticky wicket of an issue vital to all of us. n the founding director of the LLU Institute for Health writing is superb, but even more Like others who have considered these questions, Policy and Leadership. impressive is the breadth and Gorsuch is concerned about the unintended effects Endnotes depth of knowledge, the grasp of 1. See the April 4, 2017, New York Times article “The Patients Were Saved. That’s Why the Families Are Suing.” detail, the unusual analytic lens, of legalization of physician-assisted suicide and that Gorsuch brings to his subject. euthanasia on members of the medical profession. He understands the ethical and Dr. Carlson, associate editor of the Alumni theological underpinnings of philosophical principles: fairness, autonomy, neutrality, JOURNAL, is a retired pediatrician and an attorney. CLAYSON, BAINER & current law and the deep roots of the “harm principle,” and utilitarianism. Citing the She writes from Redlands, California. controversy related to attempts American Medical Association’s invocation of the prin- SAUNDERS to change it. And he knows a lot ciple of double effect, first identified by Thomas Aquinas, A Professional Law Corporation about medicine. Gorsuch pays particular attention to the act/omission The Future of Gorsuch begins with a review distinction and its relationship to intent to kill. He also The Divine Thread of the Supreme Court’s 1997 calls attention to the unspoken assumption that an osten- (Continued from page 21) Assisted Suicide bookend cases of Washington v. sibly neutral state has the right to determine that “some the church and medical work over the decades in places Contact: Roland C. Bainer, Esq. and Euthanasia Glucksburg and Vacco v. Quill and lives are of a sort that may be taken.” Equal protection like the Sanatorio de Asunción and Scheer Memorial 601 South Main Street • Corona, CA 92882-3497 their aftermath. Then he plunges and autonomy principles, he points out, easily lead to the Hospital. And he’s grateful for the life he’s lived. “It’s been (951) 737-1910 • (951) 737-4384 FAX By Neil M. Gorsuch into a fascinating survey tracing conclusion that “any rational adult”—not just the termi- a great ride,” he said more than once during our interview. Princeton University the history of ideas about suicide nally physically ill—should receive the “imprimatur” of a As he reminisced and told his stories, he would point out We are attorneys serving physicians in: Press (2006) and penalties for assisting another neutralist state in a decision to end his or her life. over and over “that invisible thread of divine destiny.” Dr. person to kill themselves—from Like others who have considered these questions, Bailie recognizes providence at work throughout his life • practice sales & purchases 320 pages the ancients, through early and Gorsuch is concerned about the unintended effects of and credits those like Aunt Joy, the Seventh-day Adventist • incorporation & partnership medieval Christianity and its influ- legalization of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia church, and God for making it possible for him to be • managed care contracting ence on English common law and the American colonial on members of the medical profession. In a prescient living, as he says, “a life beyond my wildest dreams.” n and modern experience. Perhaps the most interesting part musing, he wonders whether, if assisting suicide becomes of this section is his analysis of 19th- and 20th-century a professional responsibility, physicians who refuse to Chris Clouzet is the managing editor of the Alumni Our firm has provided quality representation to euthanasia movements and their relationship to eugenics. participate might be sued in “wrongful life” causes of JOURNAL. He appreciates trail running, reading, and healthcare professionals since 1910. Among other things, he documents the committed action for keeping someone alive or refusing to kill a the serial comma. Someday he wants to live beneath support of members of the learned professions: physicians patient who has expressed a desire to die. Several such some redwoods.

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Kathryn Allen ’84, a family physician, is What’s new? Have you accomplished something interesting? Or been recognized? Alumni News running for a 2018 seat in U.S. Congress Or served overseas? Has a classmate been recognized? Email us: [email protected]. Raymond E. Ryckman Chair representing the 3rd Congressional 1970s District in Utah. In March, after the An Alumni Fund Project Michael H. Walter ’73-B completed the of 36 providers in the geographically current Republican seat holder Jason Bataan Memorial Death March on March and ethnically diverse cohort, which Chaffetz made comments seeming to Focus on research. 19. This is his fourth time completing represents 20 California counties. The compare the cost of health care to that of Support the Ryckman Chair and help complete the endowment. the event in recent years. The march cohort is 70 percent female and 30 an iPhone, Dr. Allen’s campaign grew momentum. She commemorates the April 1942 forced percent male and comprised of eight has raised more than $500,000, but faces the vote of a $1.5 million goal march of thousands of U.S. and Filipino dentists and 28 physicians practicing heavily Republican district. Chaffetz announced in May soldiers to various POW camps in the within a number of specialties. In her that he would step down at the end of June, opening the $620k to go Philippines upon their surrender to capacity as a fellow, Dr. Baum will use door to more candidates in the running. Dr. Allen’s first Japanese forces. Dr. Walter, a retired her expertise to help curtail California’s employment after college was as a congressional aide $50k pledged toward Army Brig. Gen., participated in the obesity epidemic by influencing local idea to have medical students be more to California congresswoman Shirley N. Pettis ’73-hon. final completion Individual Civilian Male Heavy category, ands statewide policy, systems, and easily identified by a shorter white coat. (Photo from www.dailykos.com.) $830k funded meaning he wore a pack weighing at environmental changes. Dr. Werner will continue to teach as least 35 pounds while covering the entire professor of medicine, including instruc- In June, Wayne S. Send your “Ryckman Chair” 26.2-mile course—a particularly chal- 1980s tion of his famed courses in pathophys- Dysinger ’86 received donation to the Alumni lenging slog through high desert terrain, The School of Medicine announced in its iology. Since 1981, he has taught more the Ronald Davis Special Association, LLUSM. Contact Sue Kunz: with an elevation gain of several hundred weekly email report on February 22 that than 5,800 students and won numerous Recognition Award for [email protected] or 909-558-4633 feet. He finished the march in just under Leonard Werner ’81-res will be retiring teaching awards. At the School’s gradua- his outstanding contri- 11245 Anderson St., Ste. 200 Loma Linda, CA 92354 10 hours. “from his position as senior associate tion ceremony in May, School adminis- butions to the preventive dean of Medical Student Education.” tration gave him special recognition and medicine specialty. The Marti Baum ’79, assistant professor of According to the report, Dr. Werner has asked him to pass out the last diploma. award is presented by Raymond E. Ryckman, PhD (1917–2016), was a pioneer of research and a professor of basic sciences pediatrics at LLU, has been selected to be been responsible for important School (Photo: Dr. Werner, left, presents Jiseung the American College of at LLU for over 30 years. In 2008, he received the University Distinguished Service Award (see photo). part of the 2017 cohort of the Champion policies including centralized oversight Yoon ’17 his medical diploma. Photo by Preventive Medicine. Dr. Provider Fellowship. She will be one of curricula by the dean’s office. It was his Calvin Chuang.) Dysinger started one of the largest preventive medicine residencies in the country at “I’ve just graduated from medical school, and I have so much debt!” Dartmouth in New Hampshire, served as chair of the preventive medicine department at LLU, and was pres- “We want to buy a home and start a family.” The Health of China ident of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. He “My child starts college in four years.” now runs Lifestyle Medicine Solutions in Riverside, is the “I want to retire soon.” In the fall of 2016, John E. Hodgkin ’64 medical director of the Lifestyle Medicine Institute, and ` joined Hervey W. Gimbel ’55 and his wife, continues to teach at LLU. (Photo contributed by Lifestyle Ann, on what was likely the couple’s fare- Medicine Solutions.) WHAT ARE YOUR DREAMS? well trip to China. The trip was part of For more than 40 years, Eddie Ngo, CFP, the China-USA Health Project under the 1990s has been helping Loma Linda University Ralph School of Medicine alumni pursue their auspices of Health Services International, In February, goals and dreams through solid financial Inc. The Gimbels have visited China 30 Alvarado ’94 played planning. Eddie Ngo helps clients with: times since 1991 to improve the health a major role in • Strategies to build a strong and status of the Chinese people. convincing the diverse financial portfolio Dr. Hodgkin, who served as medical Kentucky state Senate • Advice on pension planning, tax planning and insurance needs director of the Smoke-Free Life residen- to pass a bill banning Ann Gimbel, Dr. Gimbel, professor Fu Hua, Dr. Hodgkin, and professor Zheng Pin Pin • Financial plans to guide you tial stop smoking program at St. Helena stand for a photo at Fudan University in Shanghai. (Photo contributed by Dr. Hodgkin.) tobacco products through every stage of life from EDDIE NGO Hospital for over 19 years, reports that from public schools birth to retirement CERTIFIED FINANCIAL the group visited cities such as Shanghai, Hodgkin (’18), Steven E. Hodgkin ’90, and Hong Kong, the team met with Robert and events. Dr. Alvarado, a Republican, was elected in PLANNER Wuhan, Beijing, and Hong Kong. They Kathryn Glendrange, DVM, Esq. Folkenberg, president of the China Union 2014 and has been leading the effort to restrict smoking It’s never too late to plan for the future. It’s never too met with professors in Shanghai to Drs. Hodgkin and Gimbel also Mission of SDAs, and Barbara Choi, the in the state. Kentucky has the highest rate of smoking early to plan for your dreams. discuss the use of Quit Right, a stop presented talks to medical students in mission’s director of Health Affairs. in the United States, so Dr. Alvarado faces no easy ` smoking smartphone app developed Wuhan, and Dr. Gimbel presented a Read Dr. Hodgkin’s full account of the task. In 2015 and 2016, bills restricting smoking in the 222 East Olive Ave., Ste. 2 Securities and advisory services offered Redlands, CA 92373 through National Planning Corporation. by Dr. Hodgkin and his colleagues, poster at the 11th Asia-Pacific Conference trip at www.llusmaa.org/news/14336. n state were both voted down by the Senate. (Photo from 909.307.1760 Member FINRA/SIPC & a registered including three of his children: Jonathan on Tobacco or Health in Beijing. In www.apnews.com.) n [email protected] Investment advisor.

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Adventurers’ Club and Magic Castle. call to mission service in 1955 at Bangkok Grove, Oregon. over 275 clinics we own and manage in California, Oregon, Dr. Brown is survived by his Sanitarium and Hospital. After four years Dr. Schaffner served as a missionary Washington and Hawaii. To wife Eleanor, son David, daughter in Thailand, he returned to the States and a for the General Conference of SDAs at find out more about our current Sharon, 8 grandchildren, and 11 great- plastic surgery residency at the University Songa Hospital in the Belgian Congo provider opportunities, con- 2017 APC Gala Stats grandchildren. of Syracuse in New York. from 1954 to 1958. He completed a tact Dara Brennan, Manager, Beginning in 1960, Dr. Hackleman surgery residency at White Memorial Provider Recruitment, 800-847- Total Attendees: 540 Herbert A. Holden ’44-B practiced plastic surgery in Washington, Hospital, then returned to Songa from 9840 or email at [email protected]. Attendees from the Class of 2017: 112 was born on January 7, DC. In 1970 he established a practice 1959 to 1961, also working in Rhodesia Please visit our website at (numbers approximate) 1920, at the Hinsdale in Huntington, West Virginia. There he and at Malamulo Hospital in Malawi. www.physiciancareers.ah.org. Sanitarium in Illinois, and provided free surgery for poor adults During this time he became an ordained Residents and Fellows – A special thank you to the student table sponsors: died on August 8, 2016, from the state’s rural areas who had unre- pastor. From 1962 to 1969 he worked at Adventist Health’s AdvanceMD in Rancho Bernardo, paired cleft lips/palates. He retired in the Salisbury church headquarters to program is all about you! With • Chinese Adventist Physicians • “In Loving Memory of Dorothy California. 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entering full-time emergency medicine, Franklin. He and his wife, “Midge,” died Dr. Fischer attended several colleges, psychiatry, which he chaired for 17 years. Dr. Cherne married he joined the U.S. Air Force and served as the Schaffners were living in Canyon in a house fire on February 22, 2017. including La Sierra University, where He was involved in the development of Mary Race the day after a physician at Madigan Army Hospital in Lake, California, when Dorothy passed Dr. Franklin was educated at he sketched medical illustrations for the three psychiatry clinical programs: the his medical school grad- Washington and on the Francis E. Warren away in 1993 shortly after their 50th Maplewood Academy, Union College, anatomy department. He and Muriel Mental Health Center, the Children’s uation. He interned at Air Force Base in Wyoming, attaining the wedding anniversary celebration. and the University of West Virginia. He Spear were married in 1949. After medical Psychiatric Hospital, and the Center for Glendale Sanitarium and rank of captain. He practiced family medi- Dr. Schaffner married Mavis Davis in served in the military during World War school he practiced family medicine in Alcoholism, Substance Abuse and Other Hospital, then took a cine in Lemon Grove, California, for nine 1994 and was ER director for 15 years at II, then earned his medical degree at Idaho until 1961, when he returned to Addiction (CASAA). During his career, family practice residency years and Boulder, Colorado, for 30 years Menifee Hospital, retiring as the oldest Loma Linda. Subsequently, he opened Los Angeles for an anesthesia residency. he published more than 70 scientific at Kern County Hospital. He worked until retiring in 1991. board-certified ER surgeon in the U.S. He a clinic in Northome, Minnesota, in He relocated to Deer Park Hospital and papers and a book entitled “History of locum tenens in Fortuna, California, from Dr. Daarud enjoyed hiking, back- and Mavis moved to Redlands in 2010. 1950. He worked at Bemidji Community Sanitarium in 1968. In 1975, the Fischers Psychiatry in New Mexico, 1889–1989.” 1954 to 1956. The Chernes then spent packing, camping, fishing, and playing During almost 23 years of marriage, they Hospital and several nursing homes and moved to West Berlin, Germany, where He served on many committees, coun- three years in Nigeria and opened up a golf. He is preceded in death by his enjoyed golf, travels, including a trip to spent time serving on the Northome Dr. Fischer practiced at the SDA hospital cils, and task forces for the American new mission hospital. They were replaced wife, Gladyce; his brothers David and Africa, vacationing in Hawaii, and time Public School Board. Krankenhaus Waldfriede until 1980. Psychiatric Association, the American by A. Gordon Goude ’48 who practiced Earl “Bud”; and his sister Margie Wolfe. with their family. Dr. Franklin served as an elder at his Returning to the States, he practiced at Medical Association, and The Veteran’s in Hopkins, Michigan. The Chernes Survivors include his children R. Scott Dr. Schaffner is survived by his wife, church, preaching and teaching Bible Kaiser Fontana Hospital until his retire- Administration in Washington, DC. took over Dr. Goude’s practice there for Daarud ’79, Steven Daarud, Cheryl Mavis, their six children, and many studies. In later years, he and Midge ment in 1984. After retiring from UNM in 1991, one year before moving to Bellflower, Boulais; six grandchildren; and one grandchildren and great-grandchildren. performed missionary service at the SDA Dr. Fischer enjoyed playing the piano, Dr. Winslow held consulting positions California, to work with James A. great-grandchild. Clinic in Guam. He and his wife were zither harp, and accordion. His hobbies around the state and served on the board Jetton ’34. After five years, Dr. Cherne “Jack” Stanley D. great naturalists and loved the northern included mountain climbing, hiking, of Casas de Vida Nueva, worked with returned to Loma Linda to take a surgery Deone M. Hanson ’53-B was born Wheeler ’47 was born outdoors. They enjoyed canoeing, hiking birding, stamp collecting, and drawing. the homeless program of St. Martin’s residency. He did ER work in Colton, February 17, 1928, in Cadott, Wisconsin, April 28, 1922, in Los north woods trails, and birding. Dr. He was a ham radio operator and both Hospitality Center in Albuquerque, and California, before moving to Luray, and died May 20, 2016. He practiced Angeles, California, and Franklin was an avid farmer and, in later oil and watercolor painter. Up to the age was medical director of two local psychi- Virginia, where he worked as a surgeon family medicine in southwest LA and died November 25, 2016, years, sold his produce at the Bemidji of 97, he could be seen riding his bicycle atric hospitals. He retired from medical for three years. Moving to Collegedale, Paso Robles until 1975, then Montana in Denver, Colorado. Farmer’s Market. He is survived by his around Loma Linda. For many years Dr. practice at age 80. He and his late wife, Tennessee, he resumed ER medicine. He and Nevada for a year each before Dr. Wheeler married “Jeanie” three children: Marcia J. Franklin ’76, Fischer was one of the pre-press feedback Barbara, loved to travel. They visited then decided to go into alternative medi- returning to Santa Monica in 1978. Hoffman SN’44 in 1945. He worked in Paul Franklin, and Kent Franklin; and readers for the Alumni JOURNAL. During Mexico, the Antarctic, South America, cine and joined the staff at Wildwood Eastern Kentucky with the Appalachian one granddaughter, Danielle. his visits to the Alumni Association office, Panama, the French Polynesian Islands, Institute in 1987. After three years he Walter D. Hofmann ’53-B mountain people and later practiced he loved to regale the staff with his stories. China, and the former USSR. moved to Portland, Tennessee, and did was born December as a family physician near Louisville, 1950s Dr. Fischer’s wife, Muriel, died on Dr. Winslow was preceded in death locum tenens for the next seven years 18, 1927, and died Kentucky. He pioneered natural child- Dorothy Jeanne Andrews ’50 March 24, 2017. He is survived by his five by his first wife, Berneice, and his second before moving to Loveland, Colorado, to November 7, 2016, in La birth in rural Georgia years before the was born February 6, 1922, sons, including David W. Fischer ’77-A; wife, Barbara. He is survived by his eight work at Eden Valley Institute of Wellness. Jolla, California. Lamaze program was born. He had one and died November 18, 13 grandchildren, including David children, Colleen Wiedman, Dwight W. Dr. Cherne’s hobbies included holding Dr. Hofmann gradu- mission: to tell of the love of his Lord to 2016. She was the last W. Fischer, Jr. ’04; and 22 great- Winslow ’82, Barbara Winslow, PhD, Five-day Plan to Stop Smoking programs, ated from Pacific Union College as class his patients and everyone he met. surviving member of grandchildren. Wendi Winslow Kerbel, Lee Ann Adams, being a lay preacher, passing out president. That summer he married the Dr. Wheeler is survived by three the original six founding Karen Scanlon, Kimberly Fahlen, and Jan Amazing Facts Bible-Study brochures, class vice president, Dorothy June Dunn. children, seven grandchildren, and one physicians of the LLU Department of Walter W. Winslow ’52 Hutchinson. He is also survived by his giving health talks, and writing poetry. They had seven children together and great-grandchild. Pediatrics. was born November sister, Beth Dunlop, and 12 grandchil- He is survived by his three sons Mel J. were married 22 years until her death. He 23, 1925, in Lacombe, dren and 13 great-grandchildren. Cherne ’83 (Carol), Scott A. Cherne ’85 then married Diana Bober, and they were Thomas J. Cummings ’49 was born Helmuth Friedrich Fischer ’50 Alberta, Canada, and (Susan), Brent Cherne; nine grandchil- married for 15 years. December 24, 1924, in Berrien Springs, was born September 3, died January 29, 2017. Mitchell Gaspar ’53-A was dren; and two step-grandchildren. After medical school, Dr. Hofmann Michigan, and died March 18, 2017, in 1919, in Wittenberg, He became a naturalized born November 6, 1918, enlisted as a captain in the U.S. Navy Paradise, California. He practiced family Germany, and died American citizen in 1965. in Saskatchewan, Canada, Richard C. “RC” Daarud ’53-B during the Korean War. He served as medicine, including surgery and obstet- November 18, 2016, in Dr. Winslow attended Canadian and died May 4, 2016, in was born November 1, a flight surgeon on the USS Forrestal rics, primarily in California. He enjoyed Loma Linda. Union College and La Sierra College. Newport, Washington, 1927, in Mandan, North Aircraft Carrier. A Soledad Memorial reading about history and spending time Born where Martin Luther nailed Following medical school, he obtained with his wife of 42 years, Barbara, by his Dakota, to Earl and Amber plaque honors his Navy service. In 1956, in the mountains. his 95 theses to the Wittenberg Castle his training in psychiatry at Vancouver side. He practiced family medicine in the (Neuhart) Daarud. He he completed his psychiatric residency Church, Dr. Fischer spent his childhood General Hospital, Harding Hospital, Los Angeles area until 1979 before relo- died July 4, 2016, in at Ohio State University and Harding Gordon W. Franklin ’49 in Germany, Italy, and Switzerland and and the University of Cincinnati. For 26 cating to Washington. Lincoln, Nebraska. Hospital. In 1960, he moved to Glendale, was born July 11, 1921, in learned several languages. His father was years he was on the medical faculty at Dr. Daarud was a senior at College View California, where he set up his first private Mankato, Minnesota, to a Seventh-day Adventist minister and the University of New Mexico (UNM), Harold M. Cherne ’53-B was born October Academy while simultaneously a freshman practice, Hofmann Clinic, and practiced Horace William Franklin colporteur who is credited with starting where he played a significant role in 27, 1926, in Buhl, Minnesota, and died at at Union College. He married Gladyce for more than 40 years. Retiring in La and Bida Belle (Osborn) the first SDA church in Rome, Italy. the development of the department of McKee Hospital on June 22, 2016. Erickson in 1948. After medical school, Jolla, he was active in several local causes,

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including the San Diego County Grand Andrew, Alexander, Austin, and Katherine; November 19, 2016, in Fountain of Youth, medicine. He lived in Lodi, California, Hospital and joined the U.S. Air Force’s William R. Simpson ’61 Jury, where he focused on the challenges and one great-grandson, Sawyer. California. He practiced family medicine and is survived by his wife, Ruth. reserve program, serving for six years as was born May 7, 1928, facing the homeless population. He was a and is survived by his wife, Evangeline. director of the Military Air Transport and died February 1, frequent contributor to the La Jolla Light, Donald C. Fahrbach ’55 Albert M. Wick ’58 was immunizations program at O’Hare Field 2017. He completed his penning a column under the pseudonym was born in 1927 in Milton A. Miller ’57 died born June 21, 1929, in in Chicago. otolaryngology residency Dr. Hermes. Chicago, Illinois, and December 25, 2016, at Watford City, North In 1967, Dr. Hill settled his family in at Los Angeles County/ Dr. Hofmann is survived by his died of a stroke on age 87. Dakota, and died Chula Vista where he practiced family USC, where he worked for the next 30 seven children: Sherry Rincon, Judy April 9, 2017, in Kailua, Dr. Miller graduated February 4, 2017, in medicine until his retirement in 2006. years as a surgeon and ENT professor Hofmann Sanders, Kathleen Nordland, Hawaii. from Pacific Union Littleton, Colorado. During that time he served as chief of in the Keck School of Medicine. He was Walter Hofmann II, Larry Hofmann, Dr. Fahrbach was born to Maude College and earned Born to Theodore and Martha Wick, staff for two years at Scripts Chula Vista a renowned facial trauma reconstructive Gary Hofmann, and Cynthia Dickinson; (Boeken) and Christian Fahrbach. He an MS in physiology at LLU before Dr. Wick attended Campion Academy Hospital and one year on the San Diego surgeon. He is survived by his daughter, his 14 grandchildren; and his 5 great- attended high school in Chicago, where completing medical school with Alpha and Union College. He interned at Porter County Family Practice Board. Karen Simpson Webster (Stephen), and grandchildren. he pitched a high school championship Omega Alpha honors. He began Sanitarium and Hospital in Denver Dr. Hill is survived by his wife of 60 three grandchildren. game at Old Comiskey Park, home of his internship at Walter Reed Army and completed an anesthesiology resi- years, Rachel; his children, Kerry Ann Thornton A. Beckner ’55 the White Sox. After serving in the U.S. Hospital, where he was appointed chief dency at White Memorial Hospital. He Andrade SAH’81 (Steve), Alan, Jerry, and Vivian E. Lee ’64 was born was born May 28, 1926, Army during World War II, he attended of the ENT department, and later served returned to Colorado to begin prac- Kenny (Nancy); and his grandchildren April 13, 1932, in Gillette, in Meiktila, Burma, and what is now Andrews University, where as captain in the U.S. Army Hospital. ticing anesthesiology at Porter Adventist Nicholas and Angelica. Wyoming, and died in died on February 10, he met Alice Duffie. They were married He completed his residency at White and Swedish hospitals. He was one of her sleep on November 2016, in Orlando, Florida. for 63 years until Alice’s death in 2012. Memorial Hospital Medical Center and six founding members of South Denver 1960s 9, 2015, in Hawthorne, Dr. Beckner was born After medical school, he began his USC School of Medicine. Anesthesiologists and was board certified Vernon C. Bohr ’60 was Nevada. Dr. Lee practiced to SDA missionaries Robert and Ethel medical career as a solo physician in Dr. Miller was affiliated with the in anesthesiology in 1968. He practiced born September 4, 1924, family medicine for 39 years. Beckner. His father died while the family the rural mountain town of Cleveland, Doheny Eye Institute and was an ER for 33 years, retiring in 1993. in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was on furlough in Southern California Georgia. In the early years, the Fahrbachs physician and surgeon in the greater Dr. Wick was an avid reader and and died peacefully at Emma Lou Bryant Wells ’64 when he was 13 and the family never lived above the clinic. When office hours Los Angeles area. He served as assis- loved electronics, photography, singing home December 26, 2016, was born October 7, 1937, returned to Burma. He graduated from were over, patients simply went around tant professor of surgery at Western bass, working in his wood and metal in Pasadena, California, in Gainesville, Georgia, La Sierra Academy and La Sierra College, and rang at the front door. In 1966, the University Health Sciences School of shop, working outdoors, and doing after a complication from surgical and died Dec 16, 2016. where he met his wife, Barbara. They Fahrbachs volunteered as missionaries in Osteopathic Medicine in Pomona. He home repairs. He designed and created anesthesia. She lived in Bandon, married in 1951. He worked briefly as a Benghazi, Libya. After three years, they owned a private practice for more than 30 a stainless steel tool that is known Dr. Bohr attended what are now Oregon. chemist before entering medical school, relocated to Munising, Michigan, where years and continued to practice medicine as the Kelly-Wick tunneler, which is Andrews University, Walla Walla after which he trained in OB-GYN at Dr. Fahrbach joined the practice of Walter until three days before his passing. currently used in operating rooms University, and Washington Adventist Gerald H. Ellison ’66 was Duval County Medical Center. He even- R. Olson ’54 and Eugene W. Hildebrand ’53. A trailblazer in his field, Dr. Miller around the world. He also created a University. He earned a PhD from the born August 11, 1940, in tually joined in partnership with Robert He delivered babies into his 60s, covered was the first ophthalmologist to implant stainless steel stethoscope head for use by University of Colorado in 1952 and Saskatchewan, Canada, T. Hoover ’53 in Orlando, Florida, in night calls to the emergency room into the Ahmed Glaucoma Valve. He was anesthesiologists. served in the U.S. Army before gradu- and died June 28, 2016, 1963. He practiced primarily at Florida his 70s, and saw patients and served as the one of the first surgeons in California Dr. Wick is survived by his wife of 68 ating as president of his medical school in Yakima, Washington. Hospital until his retirement shortly medical director of TenderCare nursing to perform radial keratotomy. In 1983, years, Donnis; his brother, Palmer Wick; class. He practiced psychiatry. Dr. Ellison gradu- before his wife passed away in 2004. home until he retired. he designed the Miller Intraocular Lens his children, Sharon Wick, Kenneth Wick Dr. Bohr is survived by his wife Marsha ated from medical school as a member He served there as director of medical Throughout his career Dr. Fahrbach Implant for use after cataract extraction. (Lisa), Joan Wick Fleischhacker (Steve), Brant Bohr, daughters Heather Unterseker of Alpha Omega Alpha. After passing education in the 1970s and was instru- served on short-term mission trips to He co-authored “The Aging Eye” and two and Dennis Wick; and his grandchil- and Victoria Einhon, and sons Robert his American boards, he moved to mental in starting the postgraduate all parts of the world, including Kenya, other books about radial keratotomy. dren Alexandra Wick (Michael Stone), James Bohr and Vernon C. Bohr, Jr. Vancouver, Canada, where he completed education program that eventually Nepal, and Guam. He retired from medi- Dr. Miller enjoyed baseball, golf, his Victoria Wick, and David Wick. his internship, a residency in internal became the family practice residency cine in 2012, aged 83, and was recently a extensive collection of rare cars, and time Richard K. Hamamura ’60 medicine, and his Canadian boards. that continues to train family physicians 2017 AIMS Global Service Awardee. with his family. He is survived by his wife, Douglas C. Hill ’59 was was born April 4, 1934, He began practicing family medicine at Florida Hospital. Dr. Fahrbach’s wife, Alice, died in Joyce; his brother, Douglas; his children, born March 25, 1933, in in Honolulu, Hawaii, in Canada and in 1975 transferred to Dr. Beckner’s life was filled with many 2012. He is survived by his four chil- Stephen, Thomas, Lori, Meghan, Mark, Stillwater, Minnesota, and died March 3, 2017. Yakima, where he first went into solo interests, including music, his church, art, dren, Dan (Abigail Chipley), Thomas and John; his grandchildren, Vanessa, and died February 3, After a residency at practice. He later practiced with William and his family and friends. Later in life he R. Fahrbach ’88 (Jean Sammis), Nancy Matthew, Briana, Milton, and Carlye; and 2017, in Chula Vista, LLU and a fellowship at W. Robinson ’60 before becoming a took up oil painting and was proud to be Fahrbach, and Jan (Ron) Sauder. He is his great-grandchildren Trenton, Oliver, California. Stanford, he joined the LLUSM faculty in partner at Cornerstone in 1996. asked to display at local art showings and also survived by six grandchildren, Julia, and Jasper. Dr. Hill attended Maplewood 1965 and was known as “Mr. Anesthesia” An active man, Dr. Ellison loved to win awards for his paintings. Jana, Reed, Jens, Willa, and Silas. Academy and Union College. In 1956, by his colleagues. Dr. Hamamura helped spending time with his family, working Dr. Beckner is survived by his chil- Evert E. Kuester ’58 was born August 31, he married his high school sweetheart, create the Outpatient Surgery Center in his small apple orchard, biking, hiking, dren Dian Marie Scheideman and Mark A. Bernard R. Gerard ’55 was born September 1926, and died December 4, 2016. He prac- Rachel Blom. Following medical school, and was a member of the LLU Overseas backpacking, traveling to scenic parks, Beckner ’80-B; five grandchildren, Erika, 1, 1925, in Jarosa, Colorado, and died ticed radiology and specialized in nuclear he interned at Hinsdale Sanitarium and Heart Surgery teams. He retired in 2006. and racing go-carts. He served on boards

48 Alumni JOURNAL May–August 2017 49 IN MEMORIAM HISTORICAL SNAPSHOT

at his SDA church and school and within his wife, Cheryl, and his daughter, Sara Dr. Varesko was known as Billy to his the community. He became the medical Brittany Erin Kopp. parents and childhood friends, and Rudy staff president at Memorial Hospital to his adult friends and children. He in 1998. After being diagnosed with Douglas B. Erickson ’75 earned his medical degree in three years Parkinson’s disease, he retired reluctantly was born April 11, 1950, and specialized in radiation oncology, in 2010 at the age of 69. Later he was in Lebanon, Oregon, going on to save and prolong many lives diagnosed with Lewy body dementia. and died February 26, throughout his career. He had many Dr. Ellison is survived by his wife of 2017, after a 16-year hobbies that he shared with his children, 10 53 years, Deanna Ellison; his sisters, Joyce battle with Parkinson’s including piano, singing, scuba diving, 9 6 Wallewein (Norman) and Marilyn Glaim disease and Lewy body dementia. He was trains, drag racing, “hot rods,” eating food, 7 5 (Lorne); his 3 children, Donna Trammell surrounded by the loving presence of his and telling jokes. He was active in his local 8 (Mike), Doug Ellison (Mandi), Dalee wife and daughter. SDA church and loved God. Fleury (Ryan); and 11 grandchildren. Dr. Erickson graduated from He is survived by his mother, Laurelwood Academy in 1968 and Walla Elisabeth; his brother, Roland; his four 3 1970s Walla College in 1972. Following medical children, Tristan, Dustin R. Varesko ’11, 2 1 4 George T. Simpson ’73-A school, he completed further anesthesia Devon, Tiffany; their mother, Susan was born April 29, 1943, training at University of California Davis in (Stockton) Varesko; his son-in-law, Luke; and died October 16, 1979 and became board certified in 1981. and his granddaughter, Liliana Dunham. 2016, in Orchard Park, He began his practice in Salem, Oregon, in New York. He prac- 1979, which spanned more than 20 years Honorary ticed and held numerous until ending with his diagnosis. He was an Shirley N. Pettis ’77-hon professional and administrative roles in avid backpacker, mountain climber, and died December 30, 2016. Massachusetts and New York for more all-round outdoorsman who also enjoyed Mrs. Pettis, a successful than 35 years. He is survived by his wife, many hours working in his yard. He was a California business- Sharon L. Mason ’70, and his children, dedicated doctor, always willing to take on woman and congres- Amber-Louise E. Simpson and George an “extra case,” and a generous and loving sional spouse, won elec- True Simpson III. (A more complete obit- husband and father. tion to the U.S. House of Representatives uary will be included in the following issue.) Dr. Erickson is survived by his wife of to succeed her husband, Jerry L. 44 years, Susan; his daughter, Elizabeth Pettis ’77-hon, who died in 1975. During Elliot J. Kopp ’74-res was Nelson; his grandson, Liam Nelson; and two terms in Congress, she sought to Filo Jewell Otis: A patriarch’s 108-year-old 13 born February 10, 1947, his brother, Greg Erickson, and sister, continue Mr. Pettis’ conservative legis- in the Bronx, New York, Lori Deaton. lative agenda and sponsored an envi- Tie to AMMC, CME, and LLU and died August 25, ronmental bill that vastly expanded the 2016, in Raleigh, North Rudolph William Varesko ’78-A “wilderness” boundaries of the Joshua ilo Jewell Otis (1) and Ella Rebecca Otis (2) were pas- Vollmer (not pictured) grad- 11 12 Carolina. He completed was born November 13, Tree National Monument east of Los Fsionate about their children attending medical school at uated with her in 1902. an allergy and immunology residency 1952, in Tacoma Park, Angeles. Her husband was a former exec- the American Medical Missionary College (AMMC). Lit- The CME connection to at LLUMC and a fellowship at Stanford Maryland, and died utive director of this Alumni Association tle did the Otises know their family line would continue Filo and Ella occurs through University and was board certified in October 13, 2016, at the after whom the Jerry L. Pettis Memorial to produce medical doctors from AMMC, the College of their granddaughter, Dorothy June Lashier, born to their internal medicine, rheumatology, and age of 63, three days after VA Medical Center in Loma Linda Medical Evangelists (CME), and Loma Linda University daughter, Genevieve Otis (9), and her husband, Frederick allergy/immunology. He is survived by his father’s passing at the age of 93. was named. n School of Medicine (LLUSM) for five generations (so far). Arthur Lashier (10). Granddaughter Dorothy married The Otis’ first and second sons, Frank Jesse Otis (3) and CME graduate Byron H. Eller ’52 (11). Leroy Jewell Otis (4), respectively, both graduated from Byron and Dorothy Eller connect the Otises to the A Humble and Gentle Giant Posthumously, Dr. Small would receive one last honor from AMMC in 1899. Their younger brother, Elmer Filo Otis (5), two LLUSM graduates. Their daughter, Rebecca (Becky) (Continued from page 14) his beloved Alumni Association. During a ceremony at APC graduated in 1900 and a sister, Maud Julia Vollmer (6), Murdoch, great-granddaughter of Filo and Ella, married My friend Carrol S. Small ’34 (1910–1997) departed this 1998, the Alumni Center building, the building he had helped graduated in 1902. Three of these children’s spouses also John Lamont Murdoch ’63 (12). Byron and Dorothy’s life 20 years ago. Nevertheless, he left an indelible mark on the sponsor, was renamed the Carrol S. Small Alumni Center. n graduated from AMMC: Frank’s wife, Eleanore Mabel grandson (great-great grandson of Filo and Ella), Loma Linda University campus. His footsteps echo within the Otis (7), in 1903; Elmer’s wife, Clara Lee Otis (8), gradu- Alexander Cameron Eller ’17 (13), graduated this past very hallways of the basic science buildings we had walked Dennis E. Park is former executive director of the Alumni ated with him in 1900; and Maud’s husband, Alfred Martin May. Will the legacy continue? n so many years before. Although he belongs to the ages, his Association. He enjoys writing about the history of the legacy will live on in the hearts and minds of all of those who Association and the Loma Linda community and is the author Do you have a “historical snapshot” to share? Send us the photo and the background story. Email us at had the pleasure of knowing this gentle and humble giant of “The Mound City Chronicles: A Pictorial History of Loma [email protected] or mail your photo or slide to our office address on page 1. (We’ll mail it back!) named Small. Linda University, a Health Sciences Institution.”

50 Alumni JOURNAL May–August 2017 51 WHAT’S UP, DOC? Heather J. Walter ’74 Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Boston, MA

What are you famous for among friends and family? behavioral, and developmental needs of disadvan- Likely my pursuit of adventure. Initially this led me to taged inner-city kids. I also am grateful to have had an circle the globe twice, and so far I have visited nearly 80 academic career in which I could contribute to teaching, countries. Although there were many wonderful expe- administrative leadership, and the medical literature. riences, some were truly outstanding—hiking the Inca But unquestionably my most rewarding experience has Trail, scuba diving in the Great Barrier Reef and off been to be a mom. After spending part of a “gap” year New Guinea, seeing Mount Everest from a helicopter, in college at Ile Ife Adventist Hospital in Nigeria with exploring the tombs of Lower Egypt, riding the Siberian Herbert N. Giebel ’88, my son fell in love with medicine Express railway, and seeing the animals and landscapes and, at the time of this writing, is a third-year medical of Botswana. Travel gave me a vantage point from which student at the University of Pennsylvania, interested in to view the great masterpieces of art, architecture, and global medicine. I can’t wait to see how his life unfolds. nature; to imagine the unfolding of history right where it occurred; and to gain many perspectives on the human If you were to have worked in a field outside of condition. Later this pursuit of adventure turned inward, medicine, what would it have been? Why? when I began to understand that one of the most fasci- I would like to have lived on a farm. My father had a nating journeys lies within the human mind. large ranch in a desolate region of Arizona, on which I spent many years with my brothers and our friends What is your best memory from medical school? riding horses, caring for a ragtag group of stray cats and I had the good fortune to live for a while in a ramshackle lambs, and playing endless games of what was then called house on Myers Street in Riverside, which had a big field in “Cowboys and Indians.” The feeling has stayed with me back in which I could grow a remarkable vegetable garden, all these years. have space for my spirited Irish setter to run free, and host some really fun gatherings. I also loved riding dirt bikes If you could learn to do something new or better, what in the hills around Grand Terrace, going waterskiing on would it be? the Colorado River and snow skiing at Mammoth, and I would love to be a jazz singer, which is strange because attending a big outdoor rock concert or two. I have a terrible singing voice. Maybe I will take up the accordion again, which I learned as a child. What has been the most meaningful experience in your medical career? What is the best advice you’ve ever been given? For most of my childhood, I wanted to be a medical Advice that has stayed with me for over 40 years actually missionary like my aunt Dorothy Walter, who spent many came from a book that was popular in the “hippie” era. years as a nurse at Malamulo Adventist Hospital in what The author said: “For me there is only traveling on paths is now Malawi. Although my life led me in a different that have heart … and the only worthwhile challenge is to direction, I nonetheless have had the great privilege of traverse its full length—and there I travel looking, looking spending most of my career attending to the emotional, breathlessly.” Those words have served me well. n

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