Formerly Today's Christian Doctor
CMDA Today (Formerly Today’s Christian Doctor™) is a full-color, quarterly magazine devoted to today’s issues in healthcare, including inspirational testimonies from fellow Christian healthcare professionals, public policy updates, glimpses into the future of healthcare and examples of how to integrate your faith into your practice.
This quarterly journal is distributed to our members. Many of our members tell us their families and patients enjoy reading this award-winning publication. While articles teach healthcare professionals how to integrate faith into their practice, it also includes testimonials from fellow Christian healthcare professionals, stories from the mission field and information on public policy issues.
Archived Issues:
Today’s Christian Doctor – Summer 2016
In the summer 2016 edition of Today’s Christian Doctor, Dr. Don Thompson shares how healthcare missions overcomes barriers. Other topics include how to plan to serve in cross-cultural ministry, changing the healthcare of an entire continent and more.
Today’s Christian Doctor – Spring 2016
The spring 2016 edition of Today’s Christian Doctor helps you journey through CMDA’s Dental Residency program through the eyes of one of its first dental residents, offers steps to evaluate career options beyond clinical practice and more.
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Archived Individual Articles
Does Reading Matter?
By John Patrick MD |
We are not reading as we used to. Does it matter? Before the arrival of television and modern media, reading books from beginning to end was a major activity both for learning and relaxation. Nowadays most people reading on the internet have an attention span of five to seven minutes.
The Skrmetti Decision: A Win for Our Youth, A Call to Continue
By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® |
In February 2023, the state of Tennessee passed Senate Bill 1, prohibiting the use of “medical procedures for the purpose of enabling a minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minor’s sex or treating purported discomfort or distress from a discordance between the minor’s sex and asserted identities.”
Advancing the Case for Faith in Healthcare: The CMDA Matters Podcast
By Mike Chupp MD FACS FCS ECSA |
Our goal is simple: to keep reminding Christian healthcare professionals their faith doesn’t just belong in their hearts and heads, but it belongs in every patient, staff, colleague interaction, as well as every ethical decision and how they educate and equip themselves. As this community grows, our prayer is that more believers will be strengthened, encouraged and inspired to live out their faith with boldness wherever God has placed them, and that several will choose to walk alongside us by becoming part of the CMDA family because we are stronger together.
A Healing Touch
By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® |
In the Scriptures, we see numerous examples of Jesus using touch to demonstrate His message to humankind and to love us. He gathered children into His arms, restored health by a touch and healed lepers, the blind and the lame. He even allowed touch to help Thomas believe: “Then He said to Thomas, ‘Reach here with your finger, and see My hands; and reach here your hand and put it into My side; and do not be unbelieving, but believing’” (John 20:27, NASB 1995).
Rationality, Conscience and Justice: The Foundations of Western Cultural Success
By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® |
I was appalled this week by a good friend who often acts as a check on my wilder moments, but this time roles were reversed—except he was right. He sent me a report showing that most North Americans are ceasing to read even the Bible. Almost all of us, me included, have reduced concentration spans and blunted critical faculties. Even Nobel laureates have commented that modern awards are less likely to be for stunning insights than for applied technology.
Introducing Real Physicians, Real Faith
By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® |
Real Physicians, Real Faith was co-edited by Benjamin Doolittle, MD, and David L. Larson, MD, who are both CAPS members. The book is compromised of the writings of selected Christian physicians, from various domains, who each shared a 2,000-word narrative of how their faith impacts their profession.
Dig In! A Daily Discipleship Devotional: A Challenge to Dig Deeper
By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® |
If you used a depth finder during your daily Bible study, what kind of reading would you be receiving? Throughout my years as a pastor, I’ve observed that faithful followers of Jesus consistently demonstrate both breadth of obedience and depth of understanding—a clear indication of time spent with Him (Acts 4:13). As a master fisherman, Jesus Himself often emphasized the depth finder in His teachings.
Raising Up the Next Generation: A Call to Mentoring and Discipleship in Medicine
By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® |
It was July 1994. I was a newly married third year medical student on my first rotation: cardiothoracic surgery. Nothing like diving in headfirst for your third year—you have the most energy in July, after all. Unfortunately, while you have energy, you lack both the temerity and the experience to stand up for yourself, even when all you need is a few minutes for a bathroom break. Well, to all the third year medical students out there, I say, “A bathroom break is a very reasonable request, and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise!”
One Good Kidney
By Autumn Dawn Galbreath, MD, MBA |
It was July 1994. I was a newly married third year medical student on my first rotation: cardiothoracic surgery. Nothing like diving in headfirst for your third year—you have the most energy in July, after all. Unfortunately, while you have energy, you lack both the temerity and the experience to stand up for yourself, even when all you need is a few minutes for a bathroom break. Well, to all the third year medical students out there, I say, “A bathroom break is a very reasonable request, and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise!”
Rationality or Reasonableness as the Methodology of Ethical Medicine
By John Patrick MD |
Only recently has British academic and ethicist Oliver O’Donovan made me see how different these two concepts are, despite the same purpose of providing guidance for peaceful living. Behavioral norms are common to all societies, and once established they resist change very effectively for long periods of time.
Where There is Despair, Let Me Bring Hope: Assisted Suicide, the Moral Dissociation Curve and Compassionate Love
By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® |
I suspect several of those reading this essay have had patients like the one described. How are we to care for this suffering person? Do we acquiesce to his request if we’re in a state where assisted suicide is legal? As a medical culture and a society, we are at a crossroads as to how we will care for the aging and infirm populations of our graying nation.
What’s Your CMDA Story?
By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® |
When you become a CMDA Lifetime Member, you make a lifetime investment in bringing the hope and healing of Christ to the world plus make a lifetime commitment to the ministry of CMDA. It’s truly a lifeline for a lifetime. It also means no annual dues payments! Your one-time lifetime membership investment eliminates the need for annual dues payments for membership renewal.