{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,5,26]],"date-time":"2026-05-26T14:13:02Z","timestamp":1779804782678,"version":"3.53.1"},"reference-count":5,"publisher":"SAGE Publications","license":[{"start":{"date-parts":[[2026,5,22]],"date-time":"2026-05-22T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1779408000000},"content-version":"tdm","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/page\/policies\/text-and-data-mining-license"}],"content-domain":{"domain":["journals.sagepub.com"],"crossmark-restriction":true},"short-container-title":["Linacre Q"],"abstract":"<jats:p>\n                    This essay examines the theological and vocational implications of a physician's experience of serious illness through the lens of Catholic anthropology and sacramental theology. When a practicing transplant surgeon unexpectedly underwent emergency open heart surgery for acute aortic dissection, the transition from healer to patient precipitated an existential reorientation. Drawing upon St. Augustine's understanding of human dependence upon grace, the Catechism's teaching on divine sustenance, and St. John Paul II's theology of redemptive suffering in\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Salvifici Doloris<\/jats:italic>\n                    , this reflection explores how acute vulnerability disrupts professional identity while deepening it. Two devotional texts\u2014\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Lead Me, Lord<\/jats:italic>\n                    and\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Anima Christi<\/jats:italic>\n                    \u2014serve as interpretive anchors, illuminating the movement from disorientation to surrender and from autonomy to dependent agency. The essay argues that serious illness can purify and reform medical vocation by exposing the illusion of mastery and situating clinical practice within the primacy of grace. Rather than erasing professional identity, the experience of suffering may configure the physician more deeply to Christ and foster a more integrated understanding of healing as cooperation with divine providence. In this convergence of medicine and theology, vulnerability becomes not a negation of vocation but its refinement.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1177\/00243639261450689","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,5,22]],"date-time":"2026-05-22T15:23:53Z","timestamp":1779463433000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/sage-journals-update-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["When the Physician Becomes the Patient: Suffering, Surrender, and the Formation of a Catholic Medical Vocation"],"prefix":"10.1177","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5842-8075","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Siegfredo R.","family":"Paloyo","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Philippine General Hospital, University of the Philippines Manila"},{"name":"College of Medicine, University of the Philippines Manila, Manila, Philippines"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ferri P.","family":"David-Paloyo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Philippine General Hospital, University of the Philippines Manila"},{"name":"College of Medicine, University of the Philippines Manila, Manila, Philippines"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"179","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,5,22]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_3_3_2_1","volume-title":"Confessions","author":"Augustine","year":"1991","unstructured":"Augustine. 1991. 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