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Ebola's a terrifying disease.
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Disease
Terrifying
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I've thought a lot about the moment when I was infected with Ebola.
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Infected
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What I can tell you is that I serve a faithful God who answers prayers.
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Faithful
Prayers
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When you go a week without seeing a human face, that does something to you.
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Human Face
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When a person survives Ebola, when they recover, they're not a carrier of the virus.
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Carrier
Recover
Survives
Virus
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When I became ill, I started to experience what my patients had suffered under my care.
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Ill
Suffered
Patients
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Changing people's beliefs and altering behaviors is a very difficult challenge in any setting.
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Setting
Altering
Behaviors
Beliefs
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You never know who is walking around with a fever who took some Tylenol to make themselves feel better.
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Fever
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I am very convinced that I did not contract Ebola in the isolation unit, because our process is so safe.
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Isolation
Contract
Unit
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Please continue to pray for and bring attention to those suffering in the ongoing Ebola crisis in West Africa.
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Ongoing
Please
Pray
Pray For
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Pray for the people of West Africa. You cannot be apathetic towards people for whom you are earnestly praying.
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Apathetic
Pray
Earnestly
For The People
Pray For
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The nature of Ebola is that health-care workers are predominantly affected because of the way that it is spread.
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Spread
Workers
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My wife Amber and I, along with our two children, did not move to Liberia for the specific purpose of fighting Ebola.
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Amber
Fighting
Purpose
Specific
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Even with the bad news, I felt calm. I never shed a tear when I called my wife and said, 'Amber, my test is positive. I have Ebola.'
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Amber
Bad News
Calm
News
Shed
Tear
Test
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On Octover 16th, 2013, I moved to Liberia with my family to serve as a medical missionary at ELWA Hospital in the capital city of Morovia.
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Missionary
Capital
Hospital
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In theory, and I think in practice, I am immune to the strain of Ebola that I was infected with. But there are five different strains of Ebola.
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Immune
Strain
Infected
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I chose a career in medicine because I wanted a tangible skill with which to serve people. And so my role as a physician is my attempt to do that.
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Medicine
Tangible
Attempt
Chose
Physician
Skill
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Ebola has changed everything in West Africa. We cannot sit back and say, 'Oh, those poor people.' We must think outside the box and find ways to help.
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Poor People
We Cannot
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As the Ebola virus continued to consume my patients, I witnessed the horror this disease visits upon its victims, the intense pain and humiliation of those who suffer with it.
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Humiliation
Intense
Consume
Patients
Suffer
Victims
Virus
Witnessed
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You are going to share in the most intimate parts of your patients' lives. You will share in their moments of tragedy. But you will also share in their moments of greatest joy.
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Intimate
Tragedy
Patients
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I've had time to reflect on what happened to me. Am I the same person I was before Ebola? In a lot of ways, yes. I don't live every moment with a conscious awareness of what I've been through.
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Conscious
Time Moment Me
Reflect
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Even when I was facing death, I remained full of faith. I did not want to be faithful to God all the way up to serving in Liberia for ten months, only to give up at the end because I was sick.
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Faithful
Serving
Facing
Remained
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I wasn't afraid of treating Ebola patients in the isolation unit. That was the safest job. But seeing patients in the clinic, seeing patients in the emergency room, being in the community - those things gave me pause.
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Clinic
Emergency Room
Isolation
Emergency
Patients
Safest
Treating
Unit
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Ebola is a humiliating disease that strips you of your dignity. You are removed from family and put into isolation where you cannot even see the faces of those caring for you due to the protective suits - you can only see their eyes.
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Caring
Dignity
Faces
Humiliating
Isolation
Protective
Suits
Due
Strips
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I know that some consider it controversial for me to claim that God saved my life when I had received an experimental drug and some of the greatest medical care available in the world. I can see how these two realities appear to contradict each other.
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Available
Medical Care
Saved
Greatest
Appear
Claim
Consider
Contradict
Realities
Received
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Through the care of the Samaritan's Purse and SIM missionary team in Liberia, the use of an experimental drug, and the expertise and resources of the health care team at Emory University Hospital, God saved my life - a direct answer to thousands and thousands of prayers.
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Expertise
Missionary
Saved
Life God Health
Hospital
Prayers
Purse
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Just like medicine anywhere else, I get to walk through life with people in the midst sometimes of their most difficult and challenging circumstances they've faced - a terminal diagnosis, bad news, poor prognosis - and also the most joyful times with people, like the birth of a new baby.
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Bad News
Birth
Circumstances
Diagnosis
Joyful
Medicine
Midst
New Baby
Terminal
Life Walk People
Anywhere Else
Challenging
Faced
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There are a lot of health care providers in this country who have a very deep sense of service and compassion for the suffering of others, who are motivated to go to West Africa despite the risks of infection and death. And doctors and nurses face those risks every day regardless of their setting.
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Compassion
Infection
Motivated
Providers
Setting
Suffering
Nurses
Regardless
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Losing so many patients certainly was difficult, but it didn't make me feel like a failure as a physician, because I had learned that there was so much more to being a physician than curing illness. That's not the most important thing we do. The most important thing we do is enter into the suffering of others.
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Illness
Curing
Most Important Thing
Patients
Physician
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My 4-year-old son prays every night for his best friend who is the same age - our next door neighbor in Liberia, a little Liberian boy: 'Dear God, please don't let him get Ebola.' I'm proud of him for thinking about his friend and praying for him but that's not a prayer that a 4-year-old should have to consider.
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Best Friend
Dear
Every Night
Neighbor
Please
Prayer
Next Door
Same Age
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