Partners in Care: Medicine and Ministry Together
Ebook
Overview
The needs for and the benefits of holistic health care--care that extends to the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects of individuals--have been well known for 2,500 years or so. But still, to quote the late Rodney Dangerfield, some caregivers "don't get no respect." Fred Reklau is out to change that with this book, offered as an exploration of the synergies possible among those who care for persons. In the 1980s he wrote the theses that formed the core of this book. Since then they have helped many, in groups and singly, to see their work in a new light. Chaplains, pastors, parish nurses, lay caregivers, hospice workers--all will rejoice to read this heartfelt plea to elevate them to equal status with the vital care-giving services performed by physicians, psychologists, psychiatrists, and other members of the medical professions.
"An encouraging resource for caregivers, Partners in Care
emphasizes the importance of a spirit, mind, body approach to
healthcare in which the whole person is truly cared for through a
partnership between medicine and ministry."
--Kenneth C. Haugk
Founder and Executive Director
Stephen Ministries (www.stephenministries.org)
"Partners in Care contrasts of cure and care foster
meaningful conversations about healthcare decisions with loved
ones, trusted care-givers, and one's God. The authors bring to life
Victor Frankl's saying; 'No cure that fails to engage the spirit
can make us well.' From our casual reflections on wellness, to
intense 'life-and-death' debates, Partners in Care will
enlighten through its compassionate soul--a timely remedy for those
paralyzed by the complexity of healthcare and our national
debate."
--Jim Christian, LCPC, BCC
Vice President, Mission and Spiritual Care
Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital
"Bold. Unflinching. Forthright. Poetic.
Reklau and Perry give voice and clarity to what we all know is
painfully missing from today's high-tech, assembly-line medical
industry. Partners in Care delineates, in a
poetic-yet-uncompromising style, the excruciating difference
between mere cure of the disease and the true healing of the
patient.
The authors issue a clarion call to pro-actively include the clergy
and other ministers on the health care team. It's win-win."
--Pauline N. Harding, M.D.
Integrative Family Practitioner
Product Details
- Title : Partners in Care: Medicine and Ministry Together
- Authors:
- Reklau, Frederick
- Perry, R. Scott
- Publisher: Resource Publications
- Publication Date: 2010
- ISBN: 9781498272698
Frederick Reklau served as a Lutheran pastor--the last nine as a trained intentional interim pastor--for over forty years, most of them in Chicago and its suburbs. This is his first book.