We hear a lot about corruption as a scourge affecting developing countries, but we often assume it is not something that close to home for those of us living and working in the West. But the reality of medical corruption and conflict of interest affects everyone working in healthcare in every corner of the world.

Joining CMF's Head of Communications, Steve Fouch to explore this complex topic is Dr Marius Ungureanu, the Director of Education for the Masters in Public Health programme at Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

Marius has been part of a CMF working group that has produced a detailed briefing on conflict of interest and corruption in healthcare for Christians in the healing and caring professions.

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It is said the average adult makes about 3,500 remotely conscious decisions a day, with over 226 of them about food alone! Whilst we love to have choices in our life, an overabundance of demands, needs, requests and life-changing decisions can lead to worry, stress, guilt and confusion. In this episode, James talks to Laura and Noel  Aruparayil, exploring how to apply biblical wisdom (and some brain science) to practically managing life in all its multi-layered craziness. 

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In this special, extended edition of 1st incision, CMF Associate CEO John Greenall talks to Nancy Pearcey, the American author and leading Evangelical academic about her seminal book, Love Thy Body, and how our worldview affects how we understand our bodies, identity and how we value humanity and human life.

Heralded as 'America’s preeminent evangelical Protestant female intellectual' (The Economist), Nancy Pearcey is author of Love Thy Body: Answering Hard Questions about Life and Sexuality, Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity, which won a 2005 ECPA Gold Medallion Award, and How Now Shall We Live? (coauthored by Harold Fickett and Chuck Colson), which won a 2000 ECPA Gold Medallion Award, in addition to other works.

Pearcey has been a visiting scholar at Biola University’s Torrey Honors Institute, professor of worldview studies at Cairn University, and Francis A. Schaeffer scholar at the World Journalism Institute.  Currently she is professor of apologetics and scholar in residence at Houston Baptist University, a fellow at the Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture, and editor at large of The Pearcey Report.

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In this episode, John Greenall talks with Ros Turner of Transform Work UK on the importance of supporting and equipping Christians to be salt and light in their places of work. Ros shares from her wide experience of helping Christian workplace groups across the UK to support and equip Christians, and offers some challenges to us as health professionals on how we can make a real difference in the health service.

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In the first episode of season two of 1st incision, John Greenall, CMF's Associate Chief Executive, talks with leaders from other Christian medical associations around the world about the wider family of Christians in medicine and dentistry that is the International Christian Medical and Dental Association or ICMDA. Hedwin from Indonesia, Augustine from South Africa and Esther from Switzerland share with John what it means to them to be part of a global family of Christians in the medical professions.

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Dr James Howitt draws the first season of the 1st incision podcast to a close, and looks forward to the next season later in the autumn of 2019. We hope you have enjoyed the series so far, and don't forget to sign up via your favourite podcast app!

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CMF's National Field Director and paediatrician Dr John Greenall discusses the needs, sensitivities, ethics and controversies surrounding the care and treatment of children and adolescents identifying as transgender.

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Dr Mark shares some helpful, practical advice for praying effectively in the midst of the pressures of working as a Christian medic or nurse.

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Dr Kate talks to Dr James Howitt about how we care compassionately for transgender patients, looking at some of the areas of controversy in current approaches.

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In this episode, Dr James Howitt talk to Dr Melody Redman as they explore why and how Christian health professionals can engage in advocacy, medical and nursing politics and Biblical social justice.

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