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Filming by Jon Watts
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Editing by Rebecca Hamilton-Levi
Music: Ghost Byzantine by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue).
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Transcript:
Penny Thron-Weber: I've always felt that God is present in everything, and in all our relationships - all of our hard things and our easy things and our good things about our bad things. Some days I feel like I've really.. am doing that heart connection and some days, not so much, but it continues to be where I'm drawn.
How Quakerism Influences My Medical Practice
My name is Penny Thron-Weber. I live in Denver, Colorado, and my meeting is Mountain View Friends Meeting. Being a doctor has been my goal and intention since I was a pretty little girl, and I'm not really sure that I could say why at that time but it's been always very important for me to be serving people who come to me for care. To be listening well to them and, I guess in essence, finding that of God in them both just because if you can honor somebody that way you can take better care of them but also because sometimes it truly is, like, a diagnostic opportunity to hear and be present with somebody. So, that's been the crux of my practice -- is the relationship with other human beings. It's been really important for me to take care of people from all walks of life, all types of people, and I have done that because I
started my career working at Denver Health and Hospitals with mostly indigent patients, and I learned to speak Spanish in that setting, and I felt very pleased when my Spanish improved to the point where I could actually understand what people were truly trying to say to me -- not just sort of the translated version, but the sense of what mattered for them. I think that's pretty.... Um, that comes somehow from the same root as my Quakerism does.
Service as a Quaker Practice
I think service is a part of Quakerism, perhaps, from that initial George Fox-- which I can never quote anything right, but, "walking cheerfully over the Earth answering that of God in every person," and that to me speaks of... You know, you answer that of God, that is a form of service. That plus the sense that everybody has that of God in them, therefore everybody needs to have an equal access to the gifts and opportunities that the world has to offer. Yeah, that sense of connecting with and giving to other people seems like it's part of what we're called to do.
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Filming by Jon Watts
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Editing by Rebecca Hamilton-Levi
Music: Ghost Byzantine by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue).
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Transcript:
Penny Thron-Weber: I've always felt that God is present in everything, and in all our relationships - all of our hard things and our easy things and our good things about our bad things. Some days I feel like I've really.. am doing that heart connection and some days, not so much, but it continues to be where I'm drawn.
How Quakerism Influences My Medical Practice
My name is Penny Thron-Weber. I live in Denver, Colorado, and my meeting is Mountain View Friends Meeting. Being a doctor has been my goal and intention since I was a pretty little girl, and I'm not really sure that I could say why at that time but it's been always very important for me to be serving people who come to me for care. To be listening well to them and, I guess in essence, finding that of God in them both just because if you can honor somebody that way you can take better care of them but also because sometimes it truly is, like, a diagnostic opportunity to hear and be present with somebody. So, that's been the crux of my practice -- is the relationship with other human beings. It's been really important for me to take care of people from all walks of life, all types of people, and I have done that because I
started my career working at Denver Health and Hospitals with mostly indigent patients, and I learned to speak Spanish in that setting, and I felt very pleased when my Spanish improved to the point where I could actually understand what people were truly trying to say to me -- not just sort of the translated version, but the sense of what mattered for them. I think that's pretty.... Um, that comes somehow from the same root as my Quakerism does.
Service as a Quaker Practice
I think service is a part of Quakerism, perhaps, from that initial George Fox-- which I can never quote anything right, but, "walking cheerfully over the Earth answering that of God in every person," and that to me speaks of... You know, you answer that of God, that is a form of service. That plus the sense that everybody has that of God in them, therefore everybody needs to have an equal access to the gifts and opportunities that the world has to offer. Yeah, that sense of connecting with and giving to other people seems like it's part of what we're called to do.
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