This is TCE number 26, the philosophy of medicine. TCE stands for theology and current events.

Hello, my name is Father David Nix. Now, real quick, you can probably tell by the name of this podcast,

something about medicine. I just want to give you a quick warning. This podcast really isn't too much

about coronavirus or the serum that we're going to call just the vacation so as to not trip up the algorithms.

I'm going to talk about that a little bit at the end.

But the fact is I realize there's so many people both taking my side and attack me right now

that they don't understand the basics of how medicine works.

And I really hope this podcast is going to clear things up.

Now someone online recently said I have very minimal

experience in medicine. Today in my mental prayer I was meditating on the three things that St. John

says will trip you up to lead you to hell, the lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes, and the

pride of life. And the pride of life, I think, could very much include giving your CV. However,

St. Francis DeSalle says, if you are falsely accused, you should have a rebuttal for that

once and then let it drop.

So since there are people listening to me on matters of medicine, I do think it's worth giving

my CV, especially since someone said I had very minimal experience.

So I think it's worth just giving you a little bit of my history of medicine before we go into the philosophy of medicine and then the theology.

So why do I have any authority at all to speak on medicine? Well, none really, so you don't have to listen.

But I do want to tell you a little bit of my CV. So let's go way back to when I was a teenager.

You know, I went when I was 15 years old to start volunteering in the Children's Hospital of Denver in their emergency department when I was about 15.

I remember I spent my 16th birthday in a liver transplant in that same hospital.

Later after that, I graduated Boston College premed with a bachelor's in theology.

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