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Jesus' words about fathers, teachers and guides put into relief the reasons for Pope Benedict's greatness and our Christian apostolic calling. Â Â Â
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)
2/26/2013 (3 years ago)
Published in Year of Faith
Keywords: year of fatih, lent, Fr. Roger J. Landry, daily homilies
FALL RIVER, MA (Catholic Online). We're two days from Pope Benedict's last day as our Pope. When he announced his resignation 15 days ago, most of the Church and the world was shocked, wondering what the future would be like without his leadership here on earth. But in his declaration of resignation, he reminded us all that Jesus Christ, not the Pope, is the Supreme Pastor of the Church.
Even though successors of St. Peter will come and go, the Good Shepherd will never have an interregnum. Today's Gospel helps us to understand not only the relationship between Christ and the Pope - crucial for our faith in this Year of Faith - but also between Christ and all of us who are called by our baptism and confirmation to proclaim his Gospel to all creation.
But at first there's something disconcerting with regard to the Pope. In Christian piety, we called Benedict "Holy Father," and have recognized him, even in his relatively short eight-year papacy, to be one of the greatest teachers in the history of the Church. Yet Jesus today, with very strong language, tells us to call no one on earth our father or our teacher. Are we ignoring the Supreme Pastor's words?
Jesus wants to make clear that we have only one Father, one Teacher and one Spiritual Guide - God himself. God is our Father, and any human fatherhood (physical for the dads here, and spiritual for the priest or the pope) is derivative and vicarious of the Eternal Father's paternity. Jesus is our one Teacher or Master and any other teaching must point to Him who is the Truth. The Holy Spirit is our one Spiritual Guide, or Rabbi, and any other guide must cooperate with the Holy Spirit to point the person along the straight path to true life and love.
Jesus tells us to call no one on earth our father, or teacher, or rabbi, because so often human parents, instructors, or guides, rather than leading us to God, sometimes can seem to want to take God's place. Jesus' concern is not really one of vocabulary, but of mentality. Regardless of the words we use, he wants us to know that no one can take his place as the giver of life, as our teacher and our guide - and to the extent that any parent, teacher, or guide is worthy of the name, they must first be a good child, student and disciple of the one Father, Teacher and Guide. And we can be grateful that Joseph Ratzinger was indeed certainly one!
That said, Jesus also stresses, paradoxically, that God doesn't work alone. Throughout salvation history, he has used many others as his instruments to bless us with the gifts of fatherhood, knowledge and direction. He illustrates this by what he says about the scribes and Pharisees. He tells us that they sit on "Moses' seat."
God raised up Moses to pass on to the chosen people God's words and direction, leading them from slavery into the promised land. The scribes were those people who made their entire living out of knowledge of the Law of the Covenant God gave through Moses. The Pharisees were the group of people who publicly dedicated themselves full-time to trying to live by that law. Jesus said that since they sit on Moses' seat, "Do whatever they teach you and follow it," because it is not their words that one's following, but God's words through them.
Jesus also gave a warning, however, one that must have pained him to say: "But do not do as they do, for they do not practice what they teach." They were hypocrites who were not acting on the words of God. They used the word to put burdens on others, but had no love for those to whom they were preaching; they didn't "lift a finger," didn't make the least effort, to help others understand how every one of God's commands is given out of love and meant to help us to learn how to love God and love others.
Jesus told us that insofar as the Pharisees and the scribes sat in Moses' chair and passed along to the people what Moses himself had heard from God, their words were actually God's words and needed to be followed. Their personal hypocrisy, in other words, could not be used as an excuse by others not to follow the words of God they were teaching. But Jesus also stressed that we should not consider them great or exalted and follow them as individuals, because they were not humble servants of others, but rather proud hypocrites whose example would lead others astray.
What does this mean for Catholics in this Year of Faith? If Jesus, who said that we have only one Father, Teacher and Guide, told us that God works vicariously to pass on to us his words and guidance though those sit on Moses' seat, how much more would he say the same thing about those who sit not on Moses' seat but on Christ's own chair! The Pope is Christ's own earthly vicar. The bishop is a successor of the apostles. The priest is ordained by Christ through a bishop to be his collaborators. All of them, to varying degrees, sit on Christ's own chair and are called to transmit not just the law of Moses, given by God to the Jewish people, but the law of Jesus Christ, given by God to the whole human race.
So much did Jesus identify with them as his messengers that, before he sent them out to preach, he said, "Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me, and whoever rejects me rejects the one who sent me" (Lk 10:16). So Jesus is clearly saying to everyone in the Church relative to Pope Benedict and his successor, to bishops and priests, "Insofar as they sit on my chair or stand in my pulpit, 'do whatever they teach you and follow it,' for it is not just they speaking, but I speaking through them."
Jesus wants all of us to receive the word just like the Thessalonians received St. Paul's preaching, "not as a human word but as what it really is, God's word, which is also at work in you believers." So, too, the word that our Holy Father or our bishop or our parish priest passes on is not to be accepted as merely a "human word," but "as it really is," God's word at work in the heart of believers.
As Pope Benedict concludes his Pontificate, we can be grateful that so many responded to his profound and clear teaching not just as the word of a super-intelligent German intellectual but as it is really is, God's word, announced through Christ's earthly vicar and ambassador, and that it did so much work in the heart of believers.
At the same time, however, there's another truth in today's Gospel that, while thankfully it doesn't apply to Pope Benedict, we need to acknowledge with regard to some in the Church who aren't as faithful as Pope Benedict was to living coherently with Christ's words.
Just as Jesus 2000 years ago didn't stop with a simple affirmation of the divine provenance of his preachers' words, so today too Jesus, with great pain, likely would say about some of the clergy and faithful he has chosen and sent out, "But do not do as they do, for they do not practice what they teach."
There have certainly been popes, bishops, priests, professors, parents, catechists and others who, like the scribes and Pharisees, have failed to live the word they preach to others. There are certainly "evangelizers" today who burden others with the word, without showing them how it leads them to love God and others.
There are preachers whose knowledge of the word has made them proud rather than holy. There are Christians whose example not only should not be imitated, but should be castigated. In recent years, we have seen the names of bishops, priests, Catholic politicians, celebrities, judges, teachers, and parents who likewise have not put into practice the faith they profess.
But there's even a greater evil that spiritual parents, teachers and guides can do. Jesus didn't even mention it in today's Gospel, because, despite their defects, the scribes and the Pharisees reverenced the word of God so much that they never would have committed this evil. They may have misunderstood God's word, but they would never have tried to change it, or ignore it, or lie about it.
But it was not always that way. In the time after the exile, many priests were teaching contrary to God's Law. God sent the prophet Malachi to them, saying, "You have turned aside from the way; you have caused many to stumble by your teaching." Their teaching was not based on the inerrant word of God, but on their own opinions or half-truths. They were not living according to the Word of God and their immoral behavior started to alter their preaching so that they began to preach the same untruths they practiced.
The same thing that happened after the exile happens in our own day. Very often Catholics come to me with questions, bewildered because a priest or deacon in the pulpit, or a Catholic professor in an article, or a prominent Catholic in public life or in their family said something that was completely different than what they had learned growing up. I could cite hundreds of examples of these false instructions, but here are some of the most common ones:
Jesus didn't really work miracles; Scripture really isn't the word of God, but the word of men; you don't have to follow the teachings of the Pope and the bishops, just your conscience; the Eucharist is not really Jesus' body and blood, just a symbol; it's no longer necessary to go to confession; it's not a mortal sin to miss Mass on Sunday and when we do voluntarily, of course we can receive Holy Communion the next time we go; sex outside of marriage, or contraceptive use in marriage, aren't wrong as long as people love each other; Hell doesn't exist and if it did, God wouldn't really allow anyone to go there because he loves us; the Church's teachings on marriage are homophobic and immoral, discriminating against those of the same-sex; the Church has no good reason not to ordain women as priests; it's possible to be a good Catholic and be pro-choice, as long as you wouldn't have an abortion yourself.
Such preaching malpractice and theological abuse may be the worst and most harmful damage a spiritual father or mother, a teacher or guide can commit. Jesus talked about such scandalizers when he said that those who fail to keep his commandments and teach others not to keep them would be the least in his kingdom, emphasizing that it would be better for them to have had a millstone tied around their neck and tossed into the depth of the Galilean sea than to have led any of his little ones astray.
The Lord, rather, wants us to have integrity, to preach His words - all of them, including the more challenging messages - and to practice what he wants us to preach. I've always been moved by the instruction given to those who have just been ordained deacons, words that should apply to each of us. The bishop places the Book of the Gospel in his hands and says, "Receive the Gospel of Christ, whose herald you have become. Believe what you read, teach what you believe, and practice what you teach." Each of us is called to become one with the word, to believe it, teach it and put it into practice.
The greatest way we preach that Gospel, moreover, is by putting it into practice. Our example is worth a thousand homilies, books, catechetical fervorinos, or treatises. According to tradition, St. Francis of Assisi, before sending his friars out to preach, would instruct them: "Preach always, and if you must, use words."Â
We give thanks that Pope Benedict, who sat on the cathedra of Peter - which really is the vicarious teaching chair of Christ - was one who really sought to conform all of his words and body language to Christ's words and self-giving. He was a spiritual father who reminded us of the paternity of God the Father; a teacher who helped us to grasp far better the teaching of Jesus of Nazareth; a guide who strove to help us live by the Holy Spirit.
We pray that the Lord reward him in this life and in the next.
And we pray, as the chair of Peter is about to vacant, that the Lord will help the Cardinals choose another who will be as coherent to the Word and faithful to the task.Â
Father Roger Landry is pastor of St. Bernadette Parish in Fall River, MA and national chaplain of Catholic Voices USA. His homilies and articles are found on catholicpreaching.com.
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This photo was taken about the time of her arrival in America in 1915
"We had lots of good times with the family. I remember my grandma coming and visiting, my father's mother. She was a sweet little old lady and she wore a jet bonnet and a jet cape and she would come and visit us and when she came we used to tease her and play games with her. And then I had, I don't remember my other grandma, but she did bring me into the world. And at the time my mother said I had thick black hair when I was born and her other children were all very light, not much hair. My other grandma lived with my mother and Dad but I don't remember her because I was quite..., just a baby when she died.
My aunts and uncles would come and visit us. My father had five brothers and two sisters. One of his brothers came to this country when he was 18 years old. And he had, there was Edward, Frank, Jim and Sam were twins, and my father. The twins were Jim and Sam and one of the sisters was the mother to the one that married my sister. She was my father's sister and they had a drapery store in Armley (?) not too far away from Leeds. And I remember going over there when I was a little girl. We used to visit them. And I loved to go in the store and my uncle would let me measure the ribbons and I thought that wonderful. It was quite a nice store and they sold a lot of lovely things and they had five girls and just this one boy, Herbert.
My sister... my mother had four sisters and two brothers. The sisters were Betsy, Liza, Mary, Hetty and my mother. My mother's name was Emma Frances. The two boys left home and went to New Zealand when they were just young boys and it was very sad because my mother didn't hear from them. My grandma never heard from them for years and years and they never wrote and we never heard from them until after I was married even, and we heard from one of the widows saying that this George had passed away and was always talking about home. He was blind for quite a while and she sent news, but we never heard from Arthur the other boy.
So my father was just a young child and there was this girl taking care of him and he fell in this pond wherever it was, and this man saved his life, and brought him home to my mother and he said "Has this child been christened?" Well, he had been … He was named John, but his man's name was Peter Bowden, and he said, "Will you give him my name, too?" So my mother called him John Peter Bowden Roberts. Now this man was a very wealthy man and he lived in London. Once in a great while he would come up to Leeds and he would visit. And he would tell my father to be a good boy and to learn all he could and he would give him a gold piece. He would give all the other children a silver piece. My, I think that they thought he would take care of my Dad but he left his money without a will. So when that happens it goes to Chancellery.
Anyway, Dad started working very early because my people were just well they didn't have much to do with really. And so he started working half days when he was 10 years old. And his father was an engineer and he showed him, told him all about trade, being an engineer. Before my father married he took care of his mother for quite a while and they lived nearby. And my mother took care of her mother. My mother worked in a shoe shop and she would bring home her work so that she could stitch at home and make extra money. Many times my father would go to walk to… they worked in the same factory, and he would walk there to…. And look through the window and my mother would be asleep at the sewing machine. So she really neglected herself and didn't get enough rest. And she wasn't too well. Even when they got married she was wasn't too well. She had a cough and I remember one time she went away to the hospital for quite a while. And I remember going to visit her. But she did work hard, all her life and….
I think I told you all I can remember about my childhood. Then when we came to this country we were treated very good. Of course, we had to come third class. The captain was very nice. My mother and I shared a room and my father and brother shared another room. But we ate at the table together and I enjoyed the voyage very much, although it was really risky because it was during the war. In fact when we were booked to go on this Orduna Cunard liner and the voyage before the Germans had almost torpedoed it. The torpedo had just missed the boat. So they were yelling out the news that this had happened. So when we went to Liverpool to go on this boat, everybody was looking at me saying they didn't think it would make it. They thought that it would be torpedoed. Well, they had a life belt drill. Oh, we waited until the middle of the night. We went down the river Mersey and it stopped there and then in the middle of the night it started up. And the only ones who know which way we were going was the pilot and the Captain. And they had a life belt drill to tell us what to do if the siren sounded. We had a life belt. Each one of us had a life belt and they were looking out all the time for submarines.
My father wrote a diary and I gave it to my granddaughter. He had very little schooling but he was a wonderful writer and he was a smart man. Well, we enjoyed the voyage and we got there safely. And when we got here my sister had decided to meet us with a cousin of hers and the baby. But she missed us, so the guide put us on the train to Beverly, Mass. from Boston and we got off at Montserrat station. Now Beverly at that time was a beautiful city. It was called a garden city, and I thought it was just beautiful. We didn't know exactly where 60 Colon Street was, but we took a taxi and my mother was quite sick. Well, we got to the house and a neighbor came out and she had the key to the house and she said that my sister would be back again. And my sister had everything ready for us to have a nice dinner. And my uncle, the one who came when he was 18 lived in Beverly, Mass. And, of course, he and his wife and children came up to see us. Well, that night the older people talked all night, they had a lot to catch up with.
And this young cousin I had, the next morning we went for a lovely walk to the Beverly country lanes. Now since then it's all been built up and Beverly isn't as pretty as it used to be. It's deteriorated like lots of cities do, but it was beautiful then. [I'd love to tell her that Beverly, Massachusetts is again a beautiful seaside city!]
My father got work at the United Shoe. I worked as a ladies tailor. I didn't care for that kind of work and finally I got work in the United Shoe. And I worked there for 10 years. And we lived with my mother and father. But my father had to start work as a fireman and work his way up to be an engineer. But it wasn't too long and he started to get sick. Well, we finally found out he had a large cancer in the rectum and he was a very sick man. He had an operation and a colostomy, and was sick a long time. And my mother wasn't a bit well. So for quite a while my mother was upstairs sick and my father was downstairs sick. Well, I had an aunt come during the week to take care of them. And then weekends I stayed home and well... when I met my husband in a church in Salem through a friend, and then my father died. Don would come over all the time to see me and of course we couldn't go anywhere but he would shave my father and we would sit on the porch in the summertime like that, and then my father passed away."
Click here to see my blog post from July 2009 with a transcription of my great grandfather's journal during their trip from England to America via Ellis Island http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/07/ellis-island-immigration-journal-john.html
Click here to see Part One of this series on the audio tape by Bertha http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2010/04/amanuensis-monday-berthas-audio-tape.html
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2008 PARALYMPIC GAMES: U.S. Swimmers Continue Medal Momentum, Achieve Personal Bests
BEIJING, China - On day six of swimming competition, the American swimmers continue not only to visit the podium, but also to achieve numerous personal bests.
"Everyone is swimming really well and getting lifetime bests," said Julie O'Neill (Colorado Springs, Colo.), head coach, U.S. Paralympic Swimming Team. "Whether they get a medal or not, personal bests are an incredible accomplishment that everyone can go after."
After smashing her own world record by more than five seconds in the preliminary rounds (4:47.45), Jessica Long (Baltimore, Md.) returned to the pool tonight to win gold in the 400m freestyle (S8) with a time of 4:50.17. Long has set three world records and won four gold medals, one silver and one bronze during the Beijing competition.
Deb Gruen (Hamden, Conn.) also stood on the podium tonight, taking bronze in the women's 100m breaststroke (SB6) with a time of 1:46.76. Her first medal of the meet, the bronze medal means a great deal to Gruen, who will continue her time in Beijing following the Paralympic Games with a semester at Peking University through Yale's Honors Program."
"I wasn't expecting to medal. While this morning didn't go as well as I wanted, tonight was exactly right," said Gruen. "This is the start of my whole Beijing experience. My coaches are at Yale, and I share this with them, with Yale, with my family and with Team USA."
Elizabeth Stone (Grand Rapids, Mich.) finished the women's 400m freestyle (S9) in fourth place with a time of 4:46.53, dropping an astonishing 16 seconds from her qualifying time. Kelley Becherer (Sheboygan, Wis.) also posted a personal best tonight, finishing the women's 200m IM (SM13) in 2:32.21.Both Gruen and Stone set new American records.
The U.S. Swimming Team maintains its top rank in the medal standings - 14 gold, eight silver, 10 bronze - and hopes to boost their lead even further. "We're heading into a big, big day on Saturday," said O'Neill.
U.S. Results (Finals)
Men's 400m Freestyle (S8) - Tom Miazga (Cedarburg, Wis.) - 5:09.50 (8)
Women's 400m Freestyle (S8) - Jessica Long (Baltimore, Md.) - 4:50.17 (1)
Men's 100m Breaststroke (SB5) - Aaron Paulson (Portland, Ore.) - 1:42.43 (7)
Men's 100m Freestyle (S12) - Tucker Dupree (Raleigh, N.C.) - 56.16 (7)
Women's 100m Breaststroke (SB6) - Deb Gruen (Hamden, Conn.) - 1:44.00 (3)
Women's 100m Breaststroke (SB6) - Miranda Uhl (Alachua, Fla.) - 1:48.44 (6)
Women's 200m IM (SM13) - Kelley Becherer (Sheboygan, Wis.) - 2:32.21 (4)
Men's 400m Freestyle (S9) - Michael Prout (West Springfield, Mass.) - 4:29.44 (7)
Women's 400m Freestyle (S9) - Elizabeth Stone (Grand Rapids, Mich.) - 4:46.53 (4) 5:01.24 (6)
"It felt good and I felt like I was trying a lot more than this morning, so I wasn't expecting to add three seconds to my time. I don't think the third 100 [meter leg] was as strong as it should be, but I'm very proud of the gold medal. There are a lot of good competitors out there."
"Getting the bronze is so exciting. I'm thrilled. I'm excited. I'm exuberant. I'm any adjective you can think of to describe being on top of the world."
*Correction notice: please excuse the error in this morning's press release about the preliminary round results. Eight U.S. athletes (not 10 as originally reported) moved on to the finals. Mark Barr (Davis, Calif.) and Jarrett Perry (Colorado Springs, Colo./Wichita, Kan.) finished ninth and twelfth (respectively) in the men's 400m freestyle heats and did not move on to finals.
For complete swimming results, visit http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRMP/ENG/Schedule/SW.shtml.
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Explosion results in serious injuries
SPREAD EAGLE, Wis. – A 63-year-old man received serious burns to his face, hands and lower half of his body following a structure in Florence County on Wednesday.
Florence County Sheriff Jeff Rickaby said that at 10:45 a.m. on Wednesday, the Florence County Sheriff's Office received a call from a 63-year-old man, who does not speak well due to a medical condition, that he needed help.
The dispatcher confirmed his name and address listed on his wireless account as his location at 4456 Lake Ellwood Road.
Due to his medical problem, they had a very difficult time determining the specific problem and dispatched a sheriff's deputy to the Lake Ellwood address.
Dispatchers then double-checked his location using the longitude and latitude and found the actual call was coming from the intersection of U.S. Highway 2 and Montgomery Lake Road, several miles away from the Lake Ellwood address.
Rickaby said about that time, a second 911 call came in from a neighbor who heard the explosion at 2003 U.S. Highway 2 reporting a structure fire. This address is the intersection of U.S. Highway 2 and Montgomery Lake Road.
First, responding deputies found the victim with serious burns to his face, hands and lower half of his body in a vehicle in the front yard of the home.
The victim had been guided there by the neighbor that called 911.
Rickaby said that deputies and firefighters found the south wall of the home was blown out as a result of an explosion which was near the wood-fired fireplace.
The fire produced black smoke that could be seen from a distance.
Florence Fire and Rescue responded with units from Breitung Township Fire Department, Aurora Fire Department and Beacon Ambulance as mutual aid. WeEnergies and Florence Utilities also responded to the fire.
Rickaby said the victim was only able to communicate that he was trying to light his fireplace at the time of the explosion. He added the victim was taken to Dickinson County Memorial Hospital and flown out for additional medical treatment.
The cause of the explosion has yet to be determined as the home had natural gas, LP gas and wood-fired appliances.
Rickaby added no arson is suspected, and the fire marshal's office declined a request to investigate the fire any further.
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- Individual Component of the primary endpoint- Time to death [ Time Frame: Randomization to 30, 90 and 180 days ]Individual component of the primary endpoint of Death at 30, 90 and 180 days after randomization
- Number of combined events- Death, HF hospitalization and ED visits [ Time Frame: Randomization to day 210 ]
Number of combined events:
- Death and HF hospitalization or
- Death + HF hospitalization + Emergency Department (ED) visits
- Change in symptoms using the Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire (KCCQ) [ Time Frame: Baseline to day 180 ]Change in KQQC symptoms.
- Functional Status (6MWT) [ Time Frame: Baseline, 30, 90 and 180 days ]Functional status change at 30, 90 and 180 days.
- Individual component of the primary endpoint- time to HF hospitalization [ Time Frame: Randomization to 30, 60 and 180 days ]Individual component of the primary endpoint- time to HF hospitalization from randomization to 30, 60 and 90 days
- Individual component of the primary endpoint- time-averaged proportional change in NT-proBNP [ Time Frame: Baseline to 180 days ]Individual component of the primary endpoint- time-averaged proportional change in NT-proBNP from baseline to 180 days
|Study Start Date:
|April 2013
|Study Completion Date:
|October 2015
|Primary Completion Date:
|October 2015 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Active Comparator: Liraglutide
Increasing dose from 0.6mg, 1.2mg to 1.8mg SQ daily.
Drug: Liraglutide
Active Drug
Other Name: Victoza
Placebo Comparator: Placebo
Placebo dose increasing from 0.6mg, 1.2mg to 1.8 mg SQ daily.
Drug: Placebo
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Hospitalization for AHFS identifies individuals at increased risk of death and re-hospitalization following discharge. This increased risk justifies intervention with novel therapy during the vulnerable post-discharge period to enhance clinical stability and prevent early HF mortality and readmissions.
As heart failure (HF) progresses, impairments in metabolism render the heart substrate constrained, limiting cardiac metabolism. Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) is a naturally occurring incretin peptide that enhances cellular glucose uptake by stimulating insulin secretion and insulin sensitivity in target tissues. Preclinical and early-phase clinical data support GLP-1 as an effective therapy for advanced HF while use of GLP-1 receptor agonists in large numbers of patients with diabetes reveal a good safety profile and reductions in adverse cardiac outcomes.
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- AHFS is the primary cause of hospitalization
- Prior clinical diagnosis of HF
- Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction(LVEF) ≤ 40% during the preceding 3 months (if no echo within the preceding 3 months, an LVEF ≤ 30% during the preceding three years is acceptable)
- On evidence-based medication for HF (including beta-blocker and ACE-inhibitor/ARB) or previously deemed intolerant
- Use of at least 80 mg or furosemide total daily dose (or equivalent) prior to admission for AHFS (a lower dose of a loop diuretic combined with a thiazide will count as an "equivalent")
- Willingness to provide informed consent
Exclusion Criteria:
- AHFS due to acute myocarditis or acute Myocardial Infarction
- Ongoing hemodynamically significant arrhythmias contributing to HF decompensation
- Inotrope, intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP) or other mechanical circulatory support use at the time of consent. Prior use will not exclude a patient.
- Current or planned left ventricular assist device therapy in next 180 days
- United Network for Organ Sharing status 1A or 1B
- B-type natriuretic peptide(BNP)< 250 or NT-proBNP<1,000 (Not required per protocol but if available and too low would be an exclusion; within 48 hours of consent)
- Hemoglobin (Hgb) < 8.0 g/dl
- Glomerular filtration rate(GFR) < 20 ml/min/1.73 m2 within 48 hours of consent
- Systolic blood pressure < 80 mmHg at consent
- Resting Heart Rate > 110 at consent
- Acute coronary syndrome within 4 weeks as defined by electrocardiographic (ECG) changes and biomarkers of myocardial necrosis (e.g. troponin) in an appropriate clinical setting (chest discomfort or anginal equivalent)
- Percutaneous Coronary Intervention, coronary artery bypass grafting or new biventricular pacing within past 4 weeks
- Primary hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- Infiltrative cardiomyopathy
- Constrictive pericarditis or tamponade
- Complex congenital heart disease
- Non-cardiac pulmonary edema
- More than moderate aortic or mitral stenosis
- Intrinsic (prolapse, rheumatic) valve disease with severe mitral, aortic or tricuspid regurgitation
- Sepsis, active infection (excluding cystitis) or other comorbidity driving the HF decompensation
- Acute or chronic severe liver disease as evidenced by any of the following: encephalopathy, variceal bleeding, International Normalized Ration (INR) > 1.7 in the absence of anticoagulation treatment
- Terminal illness (other than HF) with expected survival of less than 1 year
- Previous adverse reaction to the study drug
- Receipt of any investigational product in the previous 30 days.
- Enrollment or planned enrollment in another randomized therapeutic clinical trial in next 6 months.
- Inability to comply with planned study procedures
- Pregnancy or breastfeeding mothers
- Women of reproductive age not on adequate contraception
- History of acute or chronic pancreatitis
- History of symptomatic gastroparesis
- Familial or personal history of medullary thyroid cancer or multiple endocrine neoplasia type-2 (MEN2)
- Prior weight-loss surgery (i.e., Roux-en-Y gastric bypass) or other gastric surgery associated with increased endogenous GLP-1 production
- Prior or ongoing treatment with GLP-1 receptor agonists
- Ongoing treatment with dipeptidyl peptide-IV inhibitors (1 week washout required)
- Ongoing treatment with thiazolidinedione
- Oxygen-dependent chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Diabetic patients with history of 2 or more severe hypoglycemia, Diabetic Ketoacidosis(DKA) or hyperglycemic, hyperosmotic nonketotic coma in the preceding 12 months.
- Diagnosis of Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus
40. If diabetic, inadequate glycemic control with glucose level > 300 mg/dL within 24 hours of randomization
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01800968
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|Principal Investigator:
|Adrian Hernandez, MD
|Duke University
|Study Chair:
|Eugene Bruanwald, MD
|Harvard University
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
|Responsible Party:
|Duke University
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01800968 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Pro00042633 5U10HL084904-09
|Study First Received:
|February 7, 2013
|Last Updated:
|October 13, 2015
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Heart Failure
Heart Diseases
Cardiovascular Diseases
Hypoglycemic Agents
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Hormones, Hormone Substitutes, and Hormone Antagonists
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Dr. Wheeler Conover, professor and chief academic officer of Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College, has been honored by his alma mater, the University of the Cumberlands, as one of that school's most effective and successful graduates. A profile on Conover, a student at the Cumberlands from 1983 to 1987, is featured in a special edition publication commemorating the university's 125thth anniversary. The book, slated to be released in the next few weeks, is produced by the University of the Cumberlands' Alumni Affairs Office. The volume features 125 individuals who have made a lasting impact in their fields of study.
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He said he is humbled by news of his inclusion in the book, noting: "It is hard for me to believe through the institution's 125 years of service they would select me. It is truly an honor to be included along with the others who are certainly deserving of the recognition. Cumberlands was such a wonderful place for me to get my undergraduate education, and it gave me the solid foundation needed to become a scientist, while also shaping me as a person. I have carried with me the many friendships made and experiences gathered while a student there," he said. "Cumberlands was a wonderful experience for me; I am glad I had the chance to enjoy the experience to study there!"
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Has anyone here played with this? This is looking very nice to me on first glance -- I especially like being able to declare things :null=>false in the migration and having it automatically add the validates_presence_of behind the scenes.
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Skip to comments.Mitt Romney made desperate push to save an unborn baby as a Mormon bishop
Posted on 10/25/2012 8:02:57 PM PDT by redtetrahedron
BOSTON, October 24, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) As a young Mormon bishop, Mitt Romney made a passionate attempt to stop a woman from aborting her child.
(Excerpt) Read more at lifesitenews.com ...
And if berating conservative FReepers who stand by their principles isn't controlling, I don't know what is.
Physician, heal thyself.
Oh, that is just so cute. Get that out of a book, or did you think of it yourself.
JR did what he did and caved, it was his choice, we get to do that in the USA (for the time being anyway).
So happy for you, I know it must be wonderful to feel so superior.......
One of these days you will learn the difference between truth and kool-aide, until then have fun
ta ta
And you are a ... that can't read or comprehend.
Prove your charge that people who oppose mormonISM are in an effort to reelect obama.
Your argument lacks reason and logic.
One day you will learn there is a difference between exposing momronISM and dissatisfaction with Romney, someday when you grow up and put your big boy pants on.
I do think it's really cool you are practicing your mind reading ability however, maybe you could get a part-time circus job.
Romney said, "I am more pro-choice than Ted Kennedy".
Romney is not pro-life.
huh? So how was it then that Romney supported free to low cost abortions?
I love that you are able to mind read, did you get a degree or did you come by it naturally.
wow, And you kiss your mother with that mouth.
I love that you think its ok, to kill a few babies as long as you don't kill all of them.
How do you decide, enny minny monny mo?
psst Rape, incest, health of the mother account for 5% of abortions, so at 1.5 million a year that's only 75,000 dismembered, burned to death, their brains sucked out, spinal cords cut skulls crushed......hey whats 75K, no biggie.
Has it ever occurred to you that there are people who are absolutely opposed to obama, and do not like Romney and want people who are supporting him to do it with their eyes opened.
I am in that category, I do not like Romney, I loath obama.
I know who Romney is, I know his history......will he be better than obama most defiantly.
Just support him knowing who he is and what his history is......it is annoying that there are conservatives who have started drinking Romney kool aide.
Open your eyes - know who Romney is ........ and vote for him.
And stop sounding like the kool aide drinkers that supported obama last time.
You are welcome to disagree.
But if you call me a baby-killer for disagreeing the discussion is over.
I did not call you a baby killer, interesting you brought that up.
I implied that you have no problem with the death of 75,000 babies a year, and apparently you do not as you repeated it.
Well look their concerns are valid but Obama has GOT to go, PERIOD. We can worry about Romney when Romney is in office.
Oh, I know. I spent the primary season supporting the leading non-Romney candidates. Romney managed to get through that test without slipping up while each of his opponents basically managed to self-destruct... none more spactacularly than my early favorite Herman Cain just a couple weeks after I made a sizable (for me) contribution. At this point I will actually feel much better about voting for him than I did for McCain.
Because abortion was illegal in 1961, Stanley Ann Dunham Obama was "punished with a child".
It's highly arguable but I think McCain is worse. I just plain don't like that guy.
Excellent point, thank you!
You are deliberately trying to manipulate people into believing a falsehood by posting quotes that are decades old...
Massachusetts Citizens For Life Executive Director Marie Sturgis: "Having Governor Romney in the corner office for the last four years has been one of the strongest assets the pro-life movement has had in Massachusetts."
(Kathryn Jean Lopez, "An Early Massachusetts Primary," National Review Online, 1/10/2007)
Massachusetts Citizens For Life Pioneer Valley Chapter Chairman Kevin Jourdain: "Mitt Romney was a great Governor, who served with honor and distinction. But most importantly, he was a pro-life Governor. He vetoed a number of pro-abortion pieces of legislation and made many pro-life appointments. He was always there for us."
(Kevin Jourdain, Remarks at Massachusetts Citizens for Life Mother's Day Pioneer Valley Dinner, Agawam, MA, 5/10/2007)
The ABRs who are doing the work of obama in such a tight race earn nothing but my disgust and disdain
Your misstatement of my post indicates otherwise.
Romney certainly isn't a god :-) How about you start acting like you believe in God? It certainly doesn't look like you do with how shamelessly you bear false witness against others.
I am sorry my post was confusing; I was excited about Herman Cain early in the primary and even contributed before his implosion over accusations of womanizing. I never have been able to stand John McCain despite his status as a veteran and POW.
I did not say Romney was god, I said you need to stop acting like he is your god.
How about this, stop mind reading it's demonic.
Nope, you have made your positions perfectly clear.
Saying support the guy but know who he is, is working for obama - really that is a boring dance number you keep singing.
Only a FEW???
How about 1 in 4 pregnancies!!!
When will Americans be forced to do this...
...only at Abortion 'clinics'?
This WILL not happen!
If dedicated (though more selective on some points than others) 'Conservatives' couldn't control Mitt in the primaries; they sure as hell ain't gonna be able to when the POWER descends upon him!
If we investigate MORMONs, who were BORN into a multi-generation family of the 'church', studied it's doctrine, claimed to believe ALL that it taught, dedicated YEARS of their lives - pushing that doctrine to others in a foreign land, then being in a position of POWER within that religious organization - administering judgement over others to make sure that THEY did not stray from the teachings of the church; I'd find it VERY hard to think that they were NOT always pro-life!
To hold ANY other position, at ANY other time in their life, says HYPOCRACY to me.
This seems to says that some were NOT vetoed.
Your concern has been noted.
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17For these angels did not abide my law; therefore, they cannot be enlarged, but remain separately and singly, without exaltation, in their saved condition, to all eternity; and from henceforth are not gods, but are aangels of God forever and ever.
18And again, verily I say unto you, if a man marry a wife, and make a covenant with her for time and for all eternity, if that acovenant is not by me or by my word, which is my law, and is not sealed by the Holy Spirit of promise, through him whom I have anointed and appointed unto this power, then it is not valid neither of force when they are out of the world, because they are not joined by me, saith the Lord, neither by my word; when they are out of the world it cannot be received there, because the angels and the gods are appointed there, by whom they cannot pass; they cannot, therefore, inherit my glory; for my house is a house of order, saith the Lord God.
19And again, verily I say unto you, if a man amarry a wife by my word, which is my law, and by the new and beverlasting covenant, and it is csealed unto them by the Holy Spirit of dpromise, by him who is anointed, unto whom I have appointed this power and the ekeys of this priesthood; and it shall be said unto themYe shall come forth in the first resurrection; and if it be after the first resurrection, in the next resurrection; and shall inherit fthrones, kingdoms, principalities, and powers, dominions, all heights and depthsthen shall it be written in the Lambs gBook of Life, that he shall commit no hmurder whereby to shed innocent iblood, and if ye abide in my covenant, and commit no murder whereby to shed innocent blood, it shall be done unto them in all things whatsoever my servant hath put upon them, in time, and through all eternity; and shall be of full force when they are out of the world; and they shall pass by the angels, and the gods, which are set there, to their jexaltation and glory in all things, as hath been sealed upon their heads, which glory shall be a fulness and a continuation of the kseeds forever and ever.
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24This is aeternal livesto bknow the only wise and true God, and Jesus Christ, whom he hath csent. I am he. Receive ye, therefore, my law.
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We have a choice of killing 75,000 of them or killimg 1,500,000 of them.
Is this a comforting choice? Of course not.
Is it a choice that I have "no problem with"? By no means.
Is it a choice we must make? Unfortunately, it is.
Those of you who say, "It's none, or all!!" should by now have had ample opportunity to reflect upon the consequences of that choice, but perhaps not.....
Now. once there is a sea-change in the views of the majority of Americans, the choice of zero legal abortions will become a real possibility.
I assume you are working diligently to convince your middle of the road friends about this issue, and not just preaching back and forth to people who already believe exactly as you do. The latter strategy is one that I'm sure the abortion supporters would delight in.
Horse hockey. And misspelled.
Glad to hear that. I try to.
In California what I have done is convince them not to vote for obama, they have intense distrust of Romney.
Reality is obama will still win this state by 10 points easy
It won't matter.
I have never seen any person work so hard to get an abortionist re-elected as you have this last year.
So; claiming to be a staunch, born-in-the-wool MORMON, and being pro-death also is perfectly fine with you.
OK then...
87 posted on Sunday, October 28, 2012 2:59:24 PM by AFPhys ((Praying for our troops, our citizens, that the Bible and Freedom become basis of the US law again))
I smell a SEVERE disconnect here!!
I have never seen so many people work so hard to get an ANTI-christian elected as so many are on FR this last year.
And THEN have the GALL to bitch that others will not join them in drinking the Kool-aid©!
More horse hockey and flame bait.
I recommend another solution for posts that indicate deep-seated issues. Prayer.
Pax tecum.
You claim to be representing Christ's Church on these threads, and yet I never, EVER see the tiniest reflection of the Holy Spirit in your words or character.
By their fruits you shall know them, and I don't know you. Funny thing is, I see a lot of those fruits in Romney's actions and statements... quite ironic.
So; no evidence to back up your claim other than a repetition of it and doubling down?
Matthew 15:16
"Are you still so dull?" Jesus asked them.
Matthew 231. Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples:
2. "The teachers of the law and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat.
3. So you must obey them and do everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach.
4. They tie up heavy loads and put them on men's shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them.
5. "Everything they do is done for men to see: They make their phylacteries wide and the tassels on their garments long;
6. they love the place of honor at banquets and the most important seats in the synagogues;
7. they love to be greeted in the marketplaces and to have men call them `Rabbi.'
8. "But you are not to be called `Rabbi,' for you have only one Master and you are all brothers.
9. And do not call anyone on earth `father,' for you have one Father, and he is in heaven.
10. Nor are you to be called `teacher,' for you have one Teacher, the Christ.
11. The greatest among you will be your servant.
12. For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
13. "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men's faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to.
14. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
15. "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are.
16. "Woe to you, blind guides! You say, `If anyone swears by the temple, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound by his oath.'
17. You blind fools! Which is greater: the gold, or the temple that makes the gold sacred?
18. You also say, `If anyone swears by the altar, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gift on it, he is bound by his oath.'
19. You blind men! Which is greater: the gift, or the altar that makes the gift sacred?
20. Therefore, he who swears by the altar swears by it and by everything on it.
21. And he who swears by the temple swears by it and by the one who dwells in it.
22. And he who swears by heaven swears by God's throne and by the one who sits on it.
23. "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices--mint, dill and cummin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law--justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former.
24. You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel.
25. "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.
26. Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, and then the outside also will be clean.
27. "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men's bones and everything unclean.
28. In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.
29. "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous.
30. And you say, `If we had lived in the days of our forefathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.'
31. So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets.
32. Fill up, then, the measure of the sin of your forefathers!
33. "You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell?
34. Therefore I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify; others you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town.
35. And so upon you will come all the righteous blood that has been shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berekiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.
36. I tell you the truth, all this will come upon this generation.
37. "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing.
38. Look, your house is left to you desolate.
39. For I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, `Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.' "
Mark 7:26-27
26. The woman was a Greek, born in Syrian Phoenicia. She begged Jesus to drive the demon out of her daughter.
27. "First let the children eat all they want," he told her, "for it is not right to take the children's bread and toss it to their dogs."
And St. Paul chimes in...
Galatians 5:12
As for those agitators, I wish they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves!
That IS a problem; isn't it!!
MORMONs tend to complain that things are 'taken out of context' when their religion is shown to be lacking; but they never seem to respond back when the OOC statement is re-posted, surrounded by the other verses they claim if posted would have made the OOC one non-applicable.
Matthew 7:15-20 kjv
15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
There is one and only one pertinent question, and we must vote and speak and work accordingly:
One of two persons will be the US President from 2013-2017. Which of those two persons will be better on balance: morally, for the Supreme Court, for the economic health, the family.
You have chosen to work against Romney and for Obama. I choose otherwise.
Why are you are so bound and determined to work for Obama?
Why are you are so bound and determined to work for Obama?
You have chosen to work FOR Romney and AGAINST Obama. I choose Neither.
Why are you are so bound and determined to work for Romney?
Why do you NOT want his chosen, ANTI-Christian religion exposed?
Is your only concern what happens to this country, and not the souls of millions?
If posting the evidence would help you, it would have already worked - on this thread and many others.
Sorry, FRiend, I can't help you with your problem.
Again, I recommend prayer.
pax tecum..
If posting the evidence would help you, it would have already worked - on this thread and many others.
Is this the BEST you've got??
Claiming you've already posted 'evidence' somewhere else??
Then it should be easy enough for you to do it again.
By now; I'd bet the lurkers think you have none.
It's even on this thread - and many other recent ones.
I think those who would not consider a candidate solely because he/she is LDS might not care about anything else and likely not even look at evidence on any particular political issue, because it's all about a vehement opposition to any and all who are LDS.
For those, thankfully few, there's not much I can do.
Except again, pray, and recommend prayer to them.
pax tecum.
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Basicly I've been planning a paintbal event at a friends land in NW GA. The poll above is because the 3 people who own the land that i know for sure that want to play dont have gear so if anyone who wants to come could bring an extra gun mask ect. or whatever that can help it would be great and help to keep the event going. Lastly anyone who wants to come is more than welcome even if you cant bring anything to help. Also I'll have to see about wheather your aloud to come, this is the land owners choice.
Some side notes; no drinking, drugs, or lethal weapons non leatha arel ok if your that worried about your safety I know some people may be because of meeting people from the internet. This is just for player safety and so that we can have good relations with each other.
And here are some random game types we thought of or found to
Elimination: teams set and everyone has one life
Survivor: semi relistic 1 shot head to kill, 3 to chest, 5-6 to limbs
CTF: capture the flag
VIP: one person is a vip there is a set time or location to get the vip to he has 5-8 bodygaurds with him/her
Revival: got to respawn points wipe paint (doesnt have to be all the way off) and get back in the game kills get points first team to max points wins
One in the Chamber: one ball 1-3 lives last man standing wins
CTL: capture the leader each team has a leader you must shoot then escort the leader back to your base to win
10 Paces: !WARNING! not recomended to those who canot take pain, also big waste of paint: back to back ten steps turn and fire untill someone gives up
Zombies: small group of people are zombies get hoppers, humans have to load by hand and if shot they become a zombie
Scenario: act out a battle or something like that
Iron Man: 1 vs. 1 see whos the best man or woman
FFA: free for all (very fast paced and verry fun)
Medic: one medic per team something sets them apart from the other players when a player is shot they must set down or show that there out some how and the medic can revive the payers
Also if there any cheep fields close by tht have realy cheep prices that would help to then i could set the event there instead so everyone could come without worring about safety or lending out there stuff.
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sorry you haven't had much luck finding players. I live in west cobb. message or post here, I can help if you have a place to play close to me. let me know.
sorry you haven't had much luck finding players. I live in west cobb. message or post here, I can help if you have a place to play close to me. let me know.
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I recently pondered what might come of the global economy if we were to to put God at the forefront of our motives and decision-making. The question came as a reaction to Tim Keller, whose recent book calls on Christians to challenge their views about work. By re-orienting our work to be a "servant" instead of a "lord," Keller argues, we will actually find more fulfillment in the work that we do.
Keller's main point in the video I discussed was to caution against our human preferences for idol carving. Although this is a valuable word of warning, it's also worth noting that in a more basic sense, our work is already service.
The extent to which this is practically true will depend on a variety of factors — the type of work we're doing, the type of economic system we're engaged in, the levels of cronyism, artificiality, and misinformation in the economic environment that surrounds us — but by and large, our work is concentrated on actually fulfilling the particular needs of particular persons. As Lester DeKoster writes in Work: The Meaning of Your Life: "Work is the form in which we make ourselves useful to others."
Through this understanding, perhaps a clearer way of expressing things is that work is less about whether we're serving and more about who we're serving. At the core, this simply rehashes Keller's original point, prodding us to ask ourselves whether we're serving God or something else (i.e. anything else). But beyond this, in those rougher, hazier areas of human discernment, it also empowers us to ask some other productive questions.
For example, in examining the ways in which trade and exchange impact human relationships across broader society, DeKoster contrasts life in the African bush with life in Western civilization, noting that the primary difference lies in work: "The bush people have to do everything for themselves. Civilization is sharing in the work of others."
As DeKoster goes on to explain:
Our working puts us in the service of others; the civilization that work creates puts others in the service of ourselves. Thus, work restores the broken family of humankind… Through work that serves others, we also serve God, and he in exchange weaves the work of others into a culture that makes our work easier and more rewarding…As seed multiplies into a harvest under the wings of the Holy Spirit, so work multiplies into a civilization under the intricate hand of the same Spirit. (more…)


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- 1RCN Research Institute, University of Warwick, UK
- 2National Clinical Guidelines Centre, Royal College of Physicians, London, UK
- Correspondence to: Dr Sophie Staniszewska
, RCN Research Institute, University of Warwick, UK; Sophie.Staniszewska{at}warwick.ac.uk
A good-patient experience has become a key component of good-quality care, reflecting a long tradition of research and policy initiatives.1–5 However, the quality and consistency of care still needs to be improved to ensure that patients have the best possible experience. The Government signalled in its White Paper 'Equity and excellence: liberating the NHS'4 that greater focus needs to be placed on improving patients' experience of NHS care. In response to the need to enhance the quality of care, NICE have published new guidance. The 'Patient experience in adult NHS services: improving the experience of care for people using adult NHS services' Guidance and Quality Standard (GQS) aims …