Scores of creative ministries are providing quality healthcare to marginalize people in the name of Jesus here in the United States. This session will look at the problems of access of care for the poor, and the problems of sustainability and spiritual care integration for health and healing ministries who work with under-resourced communities. We will share several best-practice models of care that are providing superior care to the sickest and neediest among us, and doing it as both an expression of and a platform for the Gospel of the Kingdom of God.
In these days of numerous natural disasters we are blessed to be a blessing around the world but we must be well prepared for all contingencies. This session will take a look at the essential preparedness for disaster relief—specificities of surgery in time of natural disaster, health management after a disaster, appropriate surgical technology (what works on the field), lessons learned from the field, personal security, trip planning, and logistics. Crowds and mobs, hostile negotiations, entry/travel/ vehicle checks, convoy driving and control, and field hospital set up and site assessment will be covered. I will save some time for questions and answers in this important area of disaster relief where we want to do it all with excellence for the glory of the Lord.
Oral lesions can present clues of a systemic disease—the appearance, the character
of the lesions, the size, the duration, and the location of the lesions can give some insight as to a possible systemic disease. On the mission field, without all the desired tests and studies, it is very helpful to have an idea what lesions may be part of a system disease and what lesions are most likely to respond to local measures. There will be time for questions and answers.
