Today I shared some things with my "interprofessional leadership" group. I told them why I wanna help people. I even made a pledge:
I pledge before God to treat patients and everyone I interact with according to Biblical principles of honor and respect, working diligently to protect the physical and spiritual health with all the knowledge I have access to with regards to the situations I am medically involved in. I will uphold the law of the land and the context I am practicing in, and if laws impinge on Biblical values, will discontinue practices which impede my ethical conscience. I commit to pouring personal and professional energy into obtaining all available knowledge and skills to be adequately equipped as a physical and emotional healer for both domestic and international patients I hope to see during my lifetime.
I said humans were valuable:
“What does it mean to be human?” This is a question, the answer to, informs the reason I choose to spend my life with those who need health care and why I want to dedicate my life to public service. I was raised in a family rooted in the Judeo-Christian tradition of morality, and it’s where I garnered a deep sense of respect for the sanctity of human life—what it means to be human. A human being isn’t valuable because they’ve done anything for anyone else or because they can give back or because they take too much. They’re not valuable because they’re more developed, smarter, or richer. A human being is more valuable than the GDP of all the wealthiest nations. Human beings are absolutely priceless and worth sacrificing for."
Today I don't think I was understood but I created a visual after the fact to be sure I was sure what I meant.
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