Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

Unless the physicians in our sanitariums are
men of thorough habits, unless they attend
promptly to their duties, their work will become a
reproach and the Lord’s appointed agencies will
lose their influence. By a course of negligence to
duty the physician humiliates the Great Physician,
of whom he should be a representative. Strict hours
should be kept with all patients, high and low. No
careless neglect should be allowed in any of the
nurses. Ever be true to your word, prompt in
meeting your appointments, for this means much to
the sick.
Refinement and Delicacy
Among Christian physicians there should ever
be a striving for the maintenance of the highest
order of true refinement and delicacy, a
preservation of those barriers of reserve that should
exist between men and women.
We are living in a time when the world is
represented as Noah’s time, and as in the time of
Sodom. I am constantly shown the great dangers to
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