Healing For a Co -Worker III
What does a believer do when a co-worker is injured on the job? Here’s what one person did: Early in 2010, one of our ambulances was involved in an accident while on a call. The truck was severely damaged and both crew members suffered injuries severe enough to take time off work to recover. About nine months later, I was talking with one of the men from that crew about miracles and healing. Although he’s…
Healing For a Co-worker
After a few days off work, I came back one day to find my EMT partner hobbling toward the ambulance at the start of our first call. He winced in pain as we lifted the gurney. “What’s wrong with you?” I asked. Rather than answer my question, he asked his own question. “Do you know if our company provides short-term disability benefits?” “Why do you want to know?” “I hurt my back on our last…
Praying & Partners
One problem we face when we decide to pray for our patients is the comfort level of our co-workers with prayer. In this post, I’d like to address pre-hospital EMS partners, but the concept applies to other partnerships as well. What we do and how we are perceived can affect how people see our partner. The person we spend 24 hours with has a right to expect certain things from us. I cringe when I…
I Prayed – Can I Be Fired?
I’m hanging out in the OR today trolling for intubations. I have about an hour or two between cases, so I thought I’d share some tips on praying for patients. It’s a common concern most of us have when we think about praying for our patients – can we get in trouble if we pray for people on the job? In this post I’ll offer my own experiences and observations along with some information for…