{"title":"The case confessions of a pastoral visitor.","authors":"R L Morgan","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>When a bungled catheterization following surgery causes a life-threatening hemorrhage, this Lutheran minister and hospital chaplain finds himself on the receiving end of professional pastoral care. Regretting the times in offered \"Gospel platitudes and sugar-coated Bible verses\" to suffering patients, the author finds that his experience has brought him closer to God's presence and made him a better minister.</p>","PeriodicalId":79722,"journal":{"name":"Second opinion (Park Ridge, Ill.)","volume":"20 2","pages":"37-41"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1994-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Second opinion (Park Ridge, Ill.)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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When a bungled catheterization following surgery causes a life-threatening hemorrhage, this Lutheran minister and hospital chaplain finds himself on the receiving end of professional pastoral care. Regretting the times in offered "Gospel platitudes and sugar-coated Bible verses" to suffering patients, the author finds that his experience has brought him closer to God's presence and made him a better minister.