Counsels to Physicians and Medical Students provides Ellen White's guidance for those training for or practicing medicine. This pamphlet addresses both medical education and professional practice from Christian perspective. Topics typically covered include: maintaining spiritual life amid demanding studies and practice, viewing medicine as ministry not merely profession, treating patients as souls to save, combining scientific knowledge with trust in God's healing, avoiding professional pride, using natural remedies primarily, work-life balance, and financial integrity. White emphasized that Christian physicians should differ from worldly doctors through compassionate care, holistic treatment approaches, missionary purpose, and dependence on divine wisdom. The counsel guided physicians in maintaining distinctive medical missionary philosophy in practice.
Medical students and physicians, healthcare professionals, those considering medical careers, and administrators of medical educational programs maintaining Christian philosophy.
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