From senior staff writer Emily Belz: Eric McLaughlin, a family medicine doctor in Burundi, writes for us today about death. In recent years, I’ve spent time reporting at the rural hospital where he works, so I know the heaviness of what he and the other staff members face every day.
Eric and his wife, Rachel, an obstetrician at the same hospital, see death more often than US doctors do. They serve an extremely poor population, and patients show up in late stages of disease. Eric’s days are full of seeing suffering among children and adults, suffering that he as a doctor can’t solve because he lacks access to the right tests or equipment where he is.
He does save lives all the time; the first time I saw a child come out of a malarial coma and then run around the next day felt like a miracle. But the overwhelming need for medical help is what hits you at the hospital every day.
I think it’s important for the US church to listen to the testimony of people who are so close to death and suffering every day, because we can absorb secondhand some of the gospel resilience I’ve seen in the McLaughlins.
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