The Surgeon Who Showed His Scars
In 2018, a young woman named Maria sat in a consultation room at Johns Hopkins, terrified. She'd been diagnosed with a rare heart condition requiring...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on John 20:19-31.
In 2018, a young woman named Maria sat in a consultation room at Johns Hopkins, terrified. She'd been diagnosed with a rare heart condition requiring open-heart surgery, and every worst-case scenario played on loop in her mind. When her surgeon, Dr. Robert Chen, walked in, he didn't start with statistics or survival rates. He unbuttoned the top of his shirt and showed her a long, pale scar running down his sternum.…
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