Loma Linda Messages compiles Ellen G. White's counsel and addresses given to Loma Linda Sanitarium and medical school, providing foundational philosophy for Adventist medical education. These messages address training physicians as medical missionaries, maintaining spiritual focus in medical training, combining prayer with treatment, avoiding drift toward merely professional healthcare, and using medical work as entering wedge for gospel. White urged that Loma Linda prepare workers who would go to mission fields, establish health work in unentered territories, and demonstrate Christ's compassionate ministry. The compilation includes warnings against worldly educational methods, counsel on financial management, and emphasis on practical training over mere theoretical learning. White's vision shaped Loma Linda as institution training healers who minister to whole person.
Absolutely essential for Loma Linda students and faculty. Powerful for Adventist medical educators anywhere. Anyone establishing medical training programs needs this foundational philosophy.
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“Our medical students should learn to pray as well as to study.”
“The medical school is to be conducted on altogether different lines from worldly medical schools.”