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The essay explores the intersection of a physician's serious illness and theological insights on vocation.

When the Physician Becomes the Patient: Suffering, Surrender, and the Formation of a Catholic Medical Vocation

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Essay examines how a physician's serious illness influences medical vocation, indicating deeper theological insights.

The essay explores the intersection of a physician's serious illness and theological insights on vocation.
Analysis of a personal experience of a transplant surgeon undergoing emergency heart surgery.
Integration of Catholic anthropological concepts and sacramental theology.
Reflection on two devotional texts related to the process of suffering and surrender.
Illness reshaped professional identity, emphasizing dependence on divine grace.
The experience fostered a refinement of the medical vocation, linking it to the theology of redemptive suffering.
Vulnerability transformed into a deepening of the physician's relationship with Christ and healing.

Paloyo et al. (2026) studied this question.

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