Reply #37: Twenty-five years ago, my husband and I used to go to a [View All]

[murielm99]

devoutly Catholic doctor. He was a good man and a good doctor. He has since retired.

The religious paraphernalia in the office was for himself. I remember a prayer he had on one of his walls. I wish I could remember the author, but it was a prayer for the doctor to say. The prayer asked for God's guidance, and that he empathize with his patients' pain and fear. (The prayer was more poetic than my poor paraphrase of it).

When my husband asked for a vasectomy, he said, "Let me refer you to my partner." That was all. The partner saw us that day.

I had great respect for the way this doctor was guided by his faith and his medical skill.