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Tagged: Mount Sinai Hospital New York

Kidney Quest: Initial Screening for Donors
Posted on Monday, May 13th, 2013 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: initial screening, kidney transplant, Mount Sinai Hospital New York, Mount Sinai Medical Center

Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) On a hot, humid Tuesday morning, five of us piled into my sister’s Suburban and headed to Mount Sinai for our initial screening. Without a long wait in the outer office, Susan Siriwatana, our case manager, ushered us into her office. Every transplant has …[ read more ]

Christian–You Are Righteous, But Are You Merciful?

Carol McClain Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy. Matt. 5:7 Don Carson, a theologian and co-founder of Gospel Coalition, writes: “Mercy is a loving response prompted by the misery and helplessness of the one on which love is to be showered.” If I only knew then what I know now. I used to be able to point my fingers at others for not learning how to pull themselves out of the gutter. After all, I'd come from a rough and tumble upbringing where alcohol use (we were NOT drug addicts, thank you) was de rigueur. Poor and self-conscious… ...[ full story ]

Carol McClain