Word: presbyterian
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...Frank Stinchfield taught me and a few hundred other residents in orthopedic surgery at New York City's Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. He was our undisputed Grand Old Man of Orthopedics, in his time one of the most prominent orthopedic surgeons in the world. In my time he was wonderful, friendly and wise-a big, smiling, grandfather whose plain Midwestern manners stuck out like the sun among the darker heavenly bodies of the Upper West Side's professorial (read distant, arrogant) medical establishment...
...Christian that seemed consistent with my experience of being a gay Christian.”He came to HDS in 2004 as an openly gay Christian, and he became a deacon—a kind of lay minister elected by one’s congregation—in the Presbyterian Church. However, the Presbyterian Church General Assembly in the United States states that an “avowed practicing homosexual” cannot be ordained into the professional ministry.“The denomination is still inimical to bisexual, gay, lesbian, and transgender people,” he says...
...Saint, the son of one of the slain missionaries who took up his father?s calling and worked among the Waodani, has made vastly successful appearances at Christian concerts, megachurches and conferences with Mincaye, the Waodani (now a dentist) who killed his father. Melinda Perry, who attends a conservative Presbyterian church in Nashville, saw the duo with her 12-year-old daughter at a concert by gospel artist Steven Curtis Chapman...
...policies that shift more of the costs to members in an effort to make them more conscious of what they're spending. "People are used to it being an entitlement, but [Part D] wasn't the same sort of generous benefit that Medicare is," says David Scrase, president of Presbyterian Health Plan, a Part D provider in Albuquerque...
REDUCE STRESS The best way to manage stress is through physical activity or yoga, says Dr. Mehmet Oz, a heart surgeon at New York-- Presbyterian Hospital. "Yoga basically tricks you into meditating," he says. "I would recommend learning the sun salutation and starting a five-to-seven-minute practice early in the morning. It gets you limber, gets your heart beating and gets you breathing...