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CHRISTIAN MEDICAL & DENTAL FELLOWSHIP of AUSTRALIA Inc. of Christian Medicine & Dentistry Vol. 21 No. 3 December 2016 Doctors Who Inspire Us: The Life and Work of Three Famous Resume of Grace: Australians Luke’s Journal 1996-2016 Looking Forward by Learning from Past Experiences: Tapping into God’s Strength as a Junior Doctor Healthy Living Out Our Faith Hope in the Workplace Meet CMDFA Family Members LUKE’S JOURNAL | December 2016 | 1 www.cmdfa.org.au Contents editorial 4 Caring for this Frail Flesh: Theological Reflections on the Practice of Medicine – Andrew Sloane Published by the About Luke’s Journal 8 Resume of Grace: Luke’s Journal Christian Medical and Dental Fellowship of Australia Inc. This Journal is published three times a year by Healthy Hope 1996-2016 – Paul Mercer ABN 95 084 292 464 the Christian Medical and Dental Fellowship of 12 Luke’s Journal, 20 Years on Please submit all contributions to: Australia Inc. (CMDFA). 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Past Experiences: Tapping into God’s Strength as a Junior Doctor EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Professor Warwick Britton (NSW) Dr Richard Chittleborough (SA) Subscription of Luke’s Journal is given to members – Lorraine Cheung Drs David and Denise Clarke (Vic) of CMDFA. It is also offered to libraries and hospitals 28 Fruit Blooming in the Desert Dr Alan Gijsbers (Vic) at the price of $55 per year including postage within – Jacki Dunning CMDFA Australia. Enquiries and notice of change or address 30 Doctors Who Inspire Us: The Life and MEMBERS OF COUNCIL OF REFERENCE should be directed to the national office. The Old Testament records 27 times abortion. But what about issues of Work of Three Famous Australians Professor Graeme Clark, OA, MD (Hon), PhD, MB, MS, FRACS, FRCS, FTSE that males of 20 years old and justice: – Don Todman Emeritus Professor Louise Brearley Messer AM, BDSc, LDS, MDSc(Melb), PhD(Minn), GradDipDiv(ACT), FRACDS, FICD About CMDFA upward were counted as suited for 33 Living Out Our Faith in the Workplace Professor Philip Mitchell [NSW] MBBS, MD, FRCPsych, FRANZCP. Membership of CMDFA is open to graduates and war and the service of the House of • fair remuneration in our profession – Jo Ng Professor Kim Oates [NSW] AM, MD, MHP, FRACMA, FRCP, FRACP, FAFPHM, DCH. students of medicine and dentistry. 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The cost is $5 for friends of CMDFA So how and where does a Christian the Lord has yet to teach us how to be or non-financial members (including postage). Medical Journal fit in? Do we too go true to our motto: Following Christ, Mentoring: Passing the Baton On ReGS (Recent Graduates & Students) – copy by 31st January 2017 Dr Joel Wight (recent graduates) Please write to the national office making cheques to war? There are several matters to integrating faith and practice. Email: [email protected] payable to CMDFA Inc. which a Christian journal should give Healthy Service Dr Jacki Dunning(students) attention – the obvious current ones John Foley – copy by June 2017 Email: [email protected] Other issues may be obtained from your being “safe schools,” euthanasia and Editor Email: [email protected] Branch Secretary or from the national office. Throughout Luke’s Journal look out for snippets from past editions. SNIPPETS 2 | LUKE’S JOURNAL | December 2016 LUKE’S JOURNAL | December 2016 | 3 organisational culture, government investment in large social enterprises, and the role of bureaucracy and corporate management in health care institutions, these scandals raise issues Caring for this of the nature and goal of medicine. Some issues are obvious: we are rightly appalled when vulnerable patients are neglected and abused by a system that is meant to be caring for them. How did Frail Flesh these institutions develop the kind of culture in which that kind of treatment was imaginable, let alone normative? What kind of institutional culture Theological Reflections on should be normative? That is, what kind of practice is medicine? the Practice of Medicine Other issues are less obvious. What role should bureaucratic control and a focus on ‘patient outcomes’ play in the practice of medicine? We want our by Andrew Sloane who tend to join CMDFA. Members euthanasia, ‘assisted dying’ and end-of- social resources to be used wisely and of CMDFA are concerned to practice life care. The growing prominence of as effectively as possible; however, Andrew is a Senior Lecturer in medicine within appropriate ethical the issue, and the arguments for and are efficiency and maximized health Old Testament and Christian limits – hence the extensive discussion against it, have been well-documented outcomes the aim of the medical Thought and is Director of of matters of the beginning and end of elsewhere.2 I would like to consider, game? While we want to make sure Postgraduate Studies, Morling life, for instance, or questions around instead, some of the underlying that the drugs we give work and the College.