Planting seeds of thought with my JW doctor

by Faithful Witness 30 Replies latest jw experiences

  • Hortensia
    Hortensia

    Not all JWs are evil, and sometimes you can have a decent professional relationship with them. You're not friends, you are her customer. It sounds as though she has good boundaries. If you are trying to plant little seeds of doubt in her, I think you might not be honoring the professional relationship. Her religion is her business, your religion is your business.

    I don't really want to be negative. I'm glad you have a good relationship with your doctor and that her being a JW doesn't hamper the relationship.

  • VIII
    VIII

    Being a JW and being a Doctor sounds so...Oxymoronic is the only word I can come up with. How could anyone go through medical training either as a JW and still believe that crap or, even worse, be a MD and become one?

    Wow. No matter how nice she was I'd never go to her for medical advice/help.

  • Band on the Run
    Band on the Run

    VIII,

    I agree. It is far worse for an md than for a lawyer or architect. MDs are supposed to know science. What is she doing with WTs in her practice?

    Please. My laundromat owner was Mennonite. Customers used to bring fashion magazines. He must have converted to a more conservative churchc b/c AVON mags and fashion mags disappeared completely. I had my choice of some tracts, poorly written, and a trucking Christian mag, called Highway News. We needed nonMennonite competition. Competition always provided a less religious atmosphere. Thank Goodness for my Barnes and Noble nook. I dropped him a note that stated I did not need him censoring what i read, esp. AVON magazines.

    Other customers were annoyed. There was a long history of Mennonite religion being imposed on customers in the area. Competition always took care of the problem.

  • ShirleyW
    ShirleyW

    So if this JW Dr. is old enough to have grandchildren, then it is permissable for JWs to persue a college education?

    I believe you mentioned that she knows your JW status, just saying, if she were my Dr. I would ask her the above question just to see how she squirms and gets around it.

  • Faithful Witness
    Faithful Witness

    I knew I would get criticized for trusting a JW. This is an interesting discussion!

    I honestly have no interest in converting her, nor do I care what her spiritual "condition" is. She cares about us, and has always been a competent doctor. She is the only doctor in a very small family practice, is very kind, and has always seemed to have good ethics. We have access to specialists and large medical facilities when we need treatment and tests.

    That said, I have a compassion for all JW people. I think that the majority of them honestly are trying to do what they think is right. I find it fascinating that she can juggle her religion with her profession. It was also interesting that she brought up politics. Her practice has been affected by the new health care laws, and being forced to put patient records into the health care database.

    The experiences I have had in life, have given me a unique perspective on the world (as we each do). I don't have any kind of vendetta against JW's, but don't see any problem with giving anyone food for thought. I think it would be negligent to ignore a chance to at least toss a seed on the ground.

    In the KH we attended here, the WT study conductor was an engineer. He was clearly better than everyone else in the congregation full of farmers, laborers and contractors. It was interesting to hear them be so condescending toward higher education, when the speaker on stage had a master's degree.

  • Faithful Witness
    Faithful Witness

    mynameislame: "BS conductor" couldn't be a more appropriate name for our elder "friend!"

    We were a couple who asked a lot of questions that did not appear in the WT "Teach" book. After awhile, we noticed that any off topic question would cause our BS conductor to go off on a long tangent. We started calling it the "Joe Smith Show." It got very annoying, and we found our time with him becoming less and less useful.

  • littlerockguy
    littlerockguy

    I'm with Band On The Run with this one. I could never go to any professional with a high level of education who is still a JW, especially someone that old and has been in the organization for a long time. I can't help thinking there is a level of dishonesty that they are holding onto to allow themselves to be part of an organization that is anti-education and them preaching that and them being in a career that requires an extensive and continually ongoing education. It demonstrates double standards and hypocrisy to me.

    LRG

  • Giordano
    Giordano

    The double standard is a reality in the JW world. My niece wanted to go to Bethel after high school. When she looked into it she recieved a short list of positions they wanted to fill ........she choose Radiology so she enrolled in college and did a 3 year course in 2 years. Thankfully she changed her mind about Bethel. Married with children leading a normal JW life.....if there is such a thing as 'normal'.

    Bethel was always asking for trained professionals and from what I've heard also helped out with law school costs for a few. The higher education thing is bogus and in general very unfair.

    As far as your doctor goes many 'professionals' have a different view of being a witness. Family and social contacts play a big role in staying in for many. While dogma may be casually dismissed if it interferes with common sense, science and ones intellect.

  • RubaDub
    RubaDub

    If she is a good, caring doctor as you have mentioned, there are literally millions of people that would love to have that personal one-on-one touch. So many of us end up in clinics or to those doctors "approved" by our insurance companies.

    Yes, there could be negative issues in certain circumstances, but I would be happy to have a doctor like her.

    Rub a Dub

  • OUTLAW
    OUTLAW

    She is a medical doctor. Science is important. Science and the Witnesses do not mix.

    I suppose I won't tolerate any JWs in a professional capacity.....BOTR

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