TIL 236: How to Approach New Medical Research (feat. Dr. Dan Gannon)
Truth in Love
Association of Certified Biblical Counselors
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2019
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Featuring: * Is medical research bad? / A need for discernment in medical research * Examples of medical pitfalls / A need for open honest assessment * How marketing outpaces research / Warnings of bias in a capitalistic culture * Discerning the motivations and agendas in medical research * Cautions of the FDA process / A friend, but far from perfect * Example of the STAR*D trial Notes: Bibliography of critical psychology https://acbcdigitalresources.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/resources/Truth+in+Love+Resources/TIL+Show+Note%3A+Featured+Resource/Critical+Psychology+Flyer_2019.pdf
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| 0:00.0 | How to Approach New Medical Research on this edition of Truth and Love. |
| 0:12.3 | I'm Dale Johnson, and you're listening to Truth in Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors, where we seek to provide biblical solutions for the problems that people face. |
| 0:24.4 | And this week on the podcast, I am joined by Dan Gannon. Dan is a medical doctor who is retired from orthopedic |
| 0:32.9 | surgery, and Pam is also in the medical field. She's a registered nurse, worked in the ICU for several years. |
| 0:41.3 | They're also both biblical counselors, and I'm so delighted to have them. They're members at Grace Bible Church in Bozeman, Montana. And so I'm so delighted that you guys are here with me, particularly to talk about this subject of |
| 0:55.2 | medical research. Medical research right now, I would argue, is really one of the things that |
| 1:01.5 | is a huge hindrance for many people to even contemplate or think about ideas of biblical counseling. |
| 1:07.9 | So many people see the field of medical research and the potentials |
| 1:12.0 | of medical research as limiting what we think in the biblical counseling world. And so I couldn't |
| 1:18.7 | think of a better topic for us to address than something like this to really squelch our fears |
| 1:25.2 | about what really is happening in the medical world and that it's |
| 1:29.0 | something that we really can be excited about and we don't have to fear even in biblical counseling. |
| 1:34.8 | We don't have to see a pitting of faith against science if it's true and real legitimate |
| 1:40.4 | science. And so I'm delighted that you guys are here joining me to talk about this |
| 1:45.0 | subject. So let's just talk about the medical research in particular. Is medical research, |
| 1:50.6 | Dan, is medical research something that is bad? Thank you, Dale. Medical research is critical. |
| 1:56.0 | You know, I embrace it, you know, something that we need in this world. We need to make advances in the medications |
| 2:04.0 | that can be used for illnesses. We need to bring new therapies, new surgeries to relieve suffering. |
| 2:11.9 | Also, we need it to weed out present errors. I mean, there are some errors in our mainstream medical that we think |
| 2:20.4 | it's true, but future research will say, aha, we should, this is not good. We should get rid of |
| 2:26.6 | this. We should change it. So it's really critical that we have a research. But as in First |
| 2:32.7 | Thessalonians 521, we need to examine everything carefully |
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