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Thread #118245   Message #2586916
Posted By: Aggie Nostic
12-Mar-09 - 12:18 AM
Thread Name: BS: Nurse Suspended for praying ????
Subject: RE: BS: Nurse Suspended for praying ????
Ok.. lets just say for the sake of arguement.. [whoops !]

YOU are a qualified practising medical worker.
YOU are also a very devout Evangelical Christian.

So, just for fun, here's a quick test..

You suddenly find yourself alone with a non-believer
who has just suffered an extremely dramatic life threatening health problem.
Your professional diagnosis of this seriously ill persons condition
is that death is imminent;
barely minutes left before the patient will be lost forever.
There is however,
the remotest possibility you may be capable of reviving the patient and sustaining life
long enough for you to use your mobile to phone for an ambulance
and full emergency paramedic help.

What then will be your priority ?

To desparately attempt all within your professional training and knowledge
to prolong life for the next few minutes,
even if you consider your efforts may most likely be in vain.

Or, decide that as the patient is far too close to death anyway,
these vital minutes will be wasted on frantic attempts at resucitation
if it means you will risk failing to offer urgent prayer and eternal salvation.
So you decide to concentrate entirely on praying & trying to save the soul
of an individual who you believe will most benefit
from an eternity in Heaven than being damned to Hell???

So, the Ambulance eventually arrives to find you tending the deceased.

Now then, which would make you feel most guilty ?
Not having saved a life when there might have been a remote possibility
you could have succeded if you hadn't been praying so intently.

Or, failing to save a 'lost' soul from eternal Hell
because you wasted too much time on emergency medical procedures
when you should have instead been praying for the patients eternal salvation ?

What would a Professional Medical/Legal Inquiry Tribunal
make of this situation ?

Ok, 10 minutes to answer in no more than 250 words.
No talking, chewing gum, looking out the window, or copying
the person sat next to you ?
Starting now...