The Healing Touch (5 of 7)
Series: When The Rock Moved
Jeff Strite
Acts 9:32-43
Actual sentences found in patients' hospital charts
1. Patient has chest pain if she lies on her left side for over a year.
2. When she fainted, her eyes rolled around the room.
3. Patient has two teenage children, but no other abnormalities.
4. (after knee surgery) On the second day the knee was better, and on the third day it disappeared.
5. She is numb from her toes down.
6. Patient suffers from occasional, constant infrequent headaches.
7. Patient was alert and unresponsive.
8. The patient was to have a bowel resection. However, he took a job as a stock broker instead.
9. The patient refused autopsy.
10. Discharge status: Alive but without my permission.
APPLY: These humorous mistakes just go to show that Doctors and Nurses are human too. They make mistakes on hospital charts and they make mistakes (occasionally) with things that are more serious.
Everything from
- Ordering the wrong prescriptions or
- Dispensing the wrong medications
- To making the wrong diagnosis
- And operating on the wrong leg in surgery
It doesn't happen often... but it does happen. And it only proves that Doctors and Nurses aren't gods. They're NOT infallible. And as much as they want to heal everyone that comes in their doors, it isn't always going to happen!!!
I. Now, things were different in the days of Peter
When Peter was around everybody got healed.
There were no mistakes... there was no human error.
Whenever Peter came to town there was always a healing.
In Acts 4, we're told ''... a man crippled from birth was being carried to the temple gate called Beautiful, where he was put every day to beg from those going into the temple courts. When he saw Peter and John about to enter, he asked them for money. Peter looked straight at him, as did John. Then Peter said, 'Look at us!'
... Then Peter said, 'Silver or gold I do not have, but what I have ...
Series: When The Rock Moved
Jeff Strite
Acts 9:32-43
Actual sentences found in patients' hospital charts
1. Patient has chest pain if she lies on her left side for over a year.
2. When she fainted, her eyes rolled around the room.
3. Patient has two teenage children, but no other abnormalities.
4. (after knee surgery) On the second day the knee was better, and on the third day it disappeared.
5. She is numb from her toes down.
6. Patient suffers from occasional, constant infrequent headaches.
7. Patient was alert and unresponsive.
8. The patient was to have a bowel resection. However, he took a job as a stock broker instead.
9. The patient refused autopsy.
10. Discharge status: Alive but without my permission.
APPLY: These humorous mistakes just go to show that Doctors and Nurses are human too. They make mistakes on hospital charts and they make mistakes (occasionally) with things that are more serious.
Everything from
- Ordering the wrong prescriptions or
- Dispensing the wrong medications
- To making the wrong diagnosis
- And operating on the wrong leg in surgery
It doesn't happen often... but it does happen. And it only proves that Doctors and Nurses aren't gods. They're NOT infallible. And as much as they want to heal everyone that comes in their doors, it isn't always going to happen!!!
I. Now, things were different in the days of Peter
When Peter was around everybody got healed.
There were no mistakes... there was no human error.
Whenever Peter came to town there was always a healing.
In Acts 4, we're told ''... a man crippled from birth was being carried to the temple gate called Beautiful, where he was put every day to beg from those going into the temple courts. When he saw Peter and John about to enter, he asked them for money. Peter looked straight at him, as did John. Then Peter said, 'Look at us!'
... Then Peter said, 'Silver or gold I do not have, but what I have ...
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