26 day writing challenge-day 16 'Growth'

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 Write about something you're learning right now--even if you feel behind. 


This is a skill I've been striving for since I started my career in medicine, so I feel like I'm always trying to improve on this.   That is the skill of incorporating my faith into my practice.  Recently I've came across a new tool to help me with just that.  It is the book 'Healing Purpose' -finding satisfaction in a health care career, by Mark Topiazin.  This book offers some great methods that I am trying to incorporate in my own practice.   I feel like I'm becoming more proficient at taking a spiritual history, but would love to take it a step further and ask more meaningful questions to get a good assessment at where my patient is at spiritually. 

Yesterday, I took some of the methods, questions and incorporated into my medical charting system so I can be ready with questions during these encounters. 

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