083 - Alarms Going Off in Your Life? 4 Questions to Help Determine Your Specialty

Hello, Bettys and Jacks! We are fighting with technology today, but luckily the audio decided to cooperate. I probably shouldn’t point that out, but we’re very glad that we sound good! It is back-to-school season, so Mary and Alexis are kinda fighting with everything. Mary definitely went a bit overboard with the school supplies this year. Since Salt Lake Singers has started back up, Mary will take her excessive number of pencils to her choir practice to share. Listen to our interview with Dr. Jane Fjeldsted here on Spotify or here on Apple Podcasts.

 

When Mary tells people she’s a surgical tech, they often ask, “What’s your specialty?” Mary is a Jack-of-all-trades type, but she knows how to read a room. She talks a bit about a recent O.R. experience where the patient had a laryngospasm, and the specialty of Anesthesiology. 

 

Mary asks a few questions to help you figure out what is YOUR specialty, and what you might be in need of.

1. Are there alarms going off in your life? Marriage, kids, career–any of these things (and plenty more) could be causing distress. This may come in the form of a gut feeling, knowing that you don’t want to be there. Take a pulse on how you are feeling, look at the pressures (internal and external). We are specialists in our kids, but teenagers are really good at hiding their alarms, so watch for little clues and hints they may drop.
2. What are you trying to force? You cannot give another person an infusion of understanding; real conversations need to happen without manuals and agendas.
3. Are you waiting for someone to tell you what to do? Do you need a consult, or another pair of eyes and ears on something? Outside perspectives can really help clarify things sometimes.
4. LISTEN. Actually listen to what is needed right now. Antibiotics may help with another aspect of patient health, but if a patient is dying because they can’t breathe, they need a different medication. And what one person needs is not the same as what another needs. Do things in wisdom and in order (Mosiah 4:27)

Saving lives, people, and relationships is serious business, but when it comes to spirituality, you cannot save another person. Remember the primary rule of medicine: “First, do no harm.” Sometimes judgment calls need to be made. Step back and listen. 

 

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Thank you for listening, friends. We hope you can recognize your own incredible specialties, and know when outside perspectives may be helpful. We hope to be a friendly consult for you, and to help you understand some of the alarms within and appropriate responses for your lives. We’re so grateful for you, and we love you more.