Mennonite Health Journal
Writings on integration of faith and life as a healthcare professionalMennonite Health Journal
Mennonite Health Journal (MHJ), is the official publication of Mennonite Healthcare Fellowship. Since 2016 MHJ is being published as individual blog articles. Join the email list to receive Mennonite Health Journal blog articles as soon as they are published.
Reflections on SET in Zambia
Reflections on SET in Zambia: Student Elective Term Report John Stoeckle, MD from Mennonite Health Journal, Vol. 15, No. 4 - November 2013 It had been six years since I had been outside of the United States. Now I was bumping along in Zambia on the six-hour bus ride...
Personal Choices in Community Context
Personal Choices in Community Context Paul D. Leichty from Mennonite Health Journal, Vol. 15, No. 4 - November 2013 In the last issue of Mennonite Health Journal, I reflected on the choices that we as a society make as we attempt to resolve the moral dilemmas that are...
Identity and Privacy
Identity and Privacy: Healthcare Automation Essentials Barry Hieb, MD from Mennonite Health Journal, Vol. 15, No. 4 - November 2013 Introduction Each of us takes our identity for granted. Virtually every minute of our waking life we are aware of who we are and what...
Reclaiming Moral Probity
Reclaiming Moral Probity: An Essential and Foundational Part of Being a Physician Peter Carney, M.D., F.A.A.NS from Mennonite Health Journal, Vol. 15, No. 4 - November 2013 “Medicine is a sensitive societal moral weathervane. When its beneficence is blurred it is time...
MHJ – November 2013
This issue of Mennonite Health Journal Paul D. Leichty from Mennonite Health Journal, Vol. 15, No. 4 - November 2013 The lead article in this issue picks up on the “Moral Dilemmas in Healthcare” theme of the 2013 Mennonite Healthcare Fellowship Annual Gathering held...
Mungindu: A poor but thriving community in Congo
Mungindu: A poor but thriving community in Congo Murray Nickel from Mennonite Health Journal, Vol. 15, No. 3 - August 2013 We all know that that the Congolese lack a lot of things--adequate healthcare, effective education, a promising economy, sufficient...
Pioneer Mennonite Physician Dies in Paraguay
Pioneer Mennonite Physician Dies in Paraguay Paul D. Leichty from Mennonite Health Journal, Vol. 15, No. 3 - August 2013 This article was prepared by Paul Leichty using sources in Spanish, German, and English supplied by Ingrid Kaethler Epp. In addition to the main...
Moral Dilemmas and Choices
Moral Dilemmas and Choices Paul D. Leichty from Mennonite Health Journal, Vol. 15, No. 3 - August 2013 As I’ve reflected on the theme and presentations of the 2013 MHF Annual Gathering, I have recognized anew that resolving moral dilemmas involves choices. At a very...
Challenges of a Changing Health Care System
Challenges of a Changing Health Care System Timothy Stoltzfus Jost from Mennonite Health Journal, Vol. 15, No. 3 - August 2013 The American health care system is undergoing revolutionary changes. These changes present...
Moral Dilemmas in Healthcare
A Report on Annual Gathering 2013 Twila M. Albrecht from Mennonite Health Journal, Vol. 15, No. 3 - August 2013 When despair for the world grows in me… I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. Mennonite Healthcare Fellowship’s Annual Gathering took place June...