Vocation • Visions of Vocation Suffering in our vocations in order to bless Shannon Geiger | 3 min read When money is tight or ideas fail, when leaders deceive or coworkers turn, it can be hard to discern what faithfulness to a particular calling looks like. Labored prayer and... Continue Reading
Vocation • On Daily Work Healthcare Provision and the Discipline of Listening Ryan Buchholz, Curt Thompson, Eden Garber, and Larry Bergstrom | 2 min read How does a fallen world begin to heal? How do the shattered pieces get put back together to form a picture that is even more beautiful than it was to... Continue Reading
Vocation • On Daily Work On the Auscultation of the Heart Dr. Ryan Buchholz | 3 min read “Where is the lub-dub?!” Something was terribly wrong, at the earliest possible moment in my medical career. It was a moment of crisis for me on an otherwise ordinary weeknight... Continue Reading
Vocation • On Daily Work Are You Listening? Dr. Curt Thompson | 2 min read “I just don’t think you were listening. I was looking for empathy and you seemed to have your own agenda.” Truer, more sobering words were never spoken to me. Though... Continue Reading
Vocation • On Daily Work Listening Is Not Hearing Eden Garber | 2 min read “You know you’re a nurse when you wash your hands before AND after using the bathroom.” This wise saying was passed along by my first professor in nursing school, Linda... Continue Reading
Vocation • On Daily Work Listening in Medicine Dr. Larry Bergstrom | 2 min read I work at the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona. Mayo Clinic has been around since the early 1900s starting in the small town of Rochester, Minnesota but has grown to... Continue Reading