Practice what you Preach: Dr. Jillian Scherer on Understanding, Patience and Slow Medicine
Episode Summary: In this thought-provoking episode of Love & Speak the Truth, Sr. Brenda chats with Dr. Jillian Scherer who explores the need for deeper understanding and a slower pace in today’s fast-moving, divided society. She discusses how the culture of immediacy and the lack of genuine connection have created barriers, advocating for patience, listening and inclusion as key steps toward healing and unity. Dr. Scherer shares her unique journey as both a practitioner of ‘slow medicine’ and a lay minister, blending her medical expertise with her faith to care for the whole person.
Join us as she inspires us to prioritize understanding others over being understood and to create a culture of compassion as wide and welcoming as Jesus’ embrace, WWJD!
About Dr. Jillian Scherer, MD (click to expand)
Jillian is a family medicine physician, mother, wife, lay pastor, cyclist, country line dancer, and golfer. She owns and operates a direct primary care clinic in her husband’s hometown of Olney, Illinois, fulfilling her lifelong mission to care for people and build lasting relationships with patients. Committed to both medicine and ministry, Jillian completed a three-year program in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America to become a synodically authorized minister. On weekends, she shares her faith by preaching throughout southern Illinois.
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Sound Track: Laurenti Wright on keyboard
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