Keeping Faith in Medicine: Navigating secularized healthcare with grace and truth

by Theodore K. Fenske

Cardiologist Dr. Ted Fenske is no armchair director when it comes to living out his Christian obedience at work. In Keeping Faith in Medicine , Ted invites us to walk alongside him through the years of medical school, residency, and early practice, when he was fiercely focused on professional performance. His own deeply personal story of a temporary loss of this all-consuming professional identity through sudden illness leads to his story of recovering his identity in Christ above all others, and how this has prepared him to take on the priestly role of the doctor in the service of the Great Physician.

222 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2020

Reviews

[Luke · Rating 5 out of 5]

Dr. Fenske does a quick tour of common ethical dilemmas in health care, and approaches each with kindness and compassion from a creational and Biblical foundation. He offers various tools to help build that foundation, then shows how they can be applied in real world situations. The result is being open to opportunities to build up patients in their distress, treating deeper issues not just of broken bodies, but broken souls. Dr. Fenske comes alongside practitioners encouraging them to keep their faith in medicine as foundational to who they are and critical in addressing the whole patient as image bearers of God. It’s a call and challenge to let Christ work and shine through us in every situation every day, not just Sunday... to truly follow in the Great Physician’s footsteps, no matter the cost.