- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Attention
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- Nov 07, 2020
Please continue to pray for and bring attention to those suffering in the ongoing Ebola crisis in West Africa.
- Nov 07, 2020
The nature of Ebola is that health-care workers are predominantly affected because of the way that it is spread.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Through the care of the Samaritan's Purse and SIM missionary team in Liberia, the use of an experimental drug, and the expertise and resources of the health care team at Emory University Hospital, God saved my life - a direct answer to thousands and thousands of prayers.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a lot of health care providers in this country who have a very deep sense of service and compassion for the suffering of others, who are motivated to go to West Africa despite the risks of infection and death. And doctors and nurses face those risks every day regardless of their setting.
- Nov 07, 2020
Ebola's a terrifying disease.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
My 4-year-old son prays every night for his best friend who is the same age - our next door neighbor in Liberia, a little Liberian boy: 'Dear God, please don't let him get Ebola.' I'm proud of him for thinking about his friend and praying for him but that's not a prayer that a 4-year-old should have to consider.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
On Octover 16th, 2013, I moved to Liberia with my family to serve as a medical missionary at ELWA Hospital in the capital city of Morovia.
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
As the Ebola virus continued to consume my patients, I witnessed the horror this disease visits upon its victims, the intense pain and humiliation of those who suffer with it.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a person survives Ebola, when they recover, they're not a carrier of the virus.
- Immune
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- Nov 07, 2020
In theory, and I think in practice, I am immune to the strain of Ebola that I was infected with. But there are five different strains of Ebola.
- Cannot
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pray for the people of West Africa. You cannot be apathetic towards people for whom you are earnestly praying.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just like medicine anywhere else, I get to walk through life with people in the midst sometimes of their most difficult and challenging circumstances they've faced - a terminal diagnosis, bad news, poor prognosis - and also the most joyful times with people, like the birth of a new baby.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
God blessed me with a peace that surpasses understanding.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had time to reflect on what happened to me. Am I the same person I was before Ebola? In a lot of ways, yes. I don't live every moment with a conscious awareness of what I've been through.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I chose a career in medicine because I wanted a tangible skill with which to serve people. And so my role as a physician is my attempt to do that.
- Isolation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am very convinced that I did not contract Ebola in the isolation unit, because our process is so safe.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
You never know who is walking around with a fever who took some Tylenol to make themselves feel better.
- Isolation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't afraid of treating Ebola patients in the isolation unit. That was the safest job. But seeing patients in the clinic, seeing patients in the emergency room, being in the community - those things gave me pause.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I became ill, I started to experience what my patients had suffered under my care.
- Beliefs
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- Nov 07, 2020
Changing people's beliefs and altering behaviors is a very difficult challenge in any setting.
- Fighting
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- Nov 07, 2020
My wife Amber and I, along with our two children, did not move to Liberia for the specific purpose of fighting Ebola.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Losing so many patients certainly was difficult, but it didn't make me feel like a failure as a physician, because I had learned that there was so much more to being a physician than curing illness. That's not the most important thing we do. The most important thing we do is enter into the suffering of others.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ebola is a humiliating disease that strips you of your dignity. You are removed from family and put into isolation where you cannot even see the faces of those caring for you due to the protective suits - you can only see their eyes.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020