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Love your neighbour

Love your neighbour” is an ancient commandment. It has been ever central to the pursuit of salvation. However, Jesus gives this a new interpretation in the parable of The Good Samaritan (Luke 10:30-37). To the question of the scribe “Who is my neighbour?” Jesus offers the parable to explain that responsibility or neighbourhood is not determined by proximity of any type, least of all by race or caste. To be the neighbour required an attitude of the total sharing of oneself with the other. To love is to be available to give of oneself to another in need. Along the path of our life there will always be people placed there for us live out our call to love. “That they may see your good works, and glorify your Father” (Matthew 5:16) In the parable, the Samaritan was in no respect close or connected to the Jew who was plundered and left wounded by the wayside. He was not of the same clan and apparently shared nothing in common with the wounded man. Rather he should have counted the J...

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Medical Transcription

Medical transcriptionists understand that the medical record is a legal document, and handling such sensitive information requires the utmost of professional ethics and confidentiality. Because of the confidential relationship between the physician and the patient, each medical record must remain absolutely confidential. As a working MT you should never relay patient information to outside parties. It is very important to take the security of the patient record seriously. This means that even if you are transcribing your best friend's reports, the fact that you do so should never be discussed. Most facilities and MTSOs (medical transcription service owners) require the transcriptionist to sign a confidentiality statement upon hiring, and violation of this is cause for termination and possibly legal recourse. Make it a practice to transcribe your reports, proof and edit them, and then forget about them. Most confidentiality has been broken because transcriptionists talk to their...

St. Thomas

There is very little about the apostle Thomas in the Gospels; one text calls him the "twin." Rarely during Jesus' lifetime does he stand out among his colleagues. There is the instance before the raising of Lazarus, when Jesus was still in Perea and Thomas exclaimed: "Let us also go and die with Him." Best-known is his expression of unbelief after the Savior's death, giving rise to the phrase "doubting Thomas." Nevertheless, the passage describing the incident, had as today's Gospel, must be numbered among the most touching in Sacred Scripture. In the Breviary lessons Pope St. Gregory the Great makes the following reflections: "Thomas' unbelief has benefited our faith more than the belief of the other disciples; it is because he attained faith through physical touch that we are confirmed in the faith beyond all doubt. Indeed, the Lord permitted the apostle to doubt after the resurrection; but He did not abandon him in doubt. By his do...