{"id":439,"date":"2014-09-26T23:10:08","date_gmt":"2014-09-27T08:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=439"},"modified":"2014-09-27T06:20:43","modified_gmt":"2014-09-27T15:20:43","slug":"sept-26-a-guest-from-the-czec-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=439","title":{"rendered":"Sept. 26 &#8211; A Guest from the Czec Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"shariff\" data-title=\"Sept. 26 &#8211; A Guest from the Czec Republic\" data-info-url=\"http:\/\/ct.de\/-2467514\" data-backend-url=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/plugins\/shariff-sharing\/backend\/index.php\" data-temp=\"\/tmp\" data-ttl=\"60\" data-service=\"gftr\" data-services='[\"googleplus\",\"facebook\",\"twitter\",\"reddit\",\"info\"]' data-image=\"\" data-url=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=439\" data-lang=\"en\" data-theme=\"colored\" data-orientation=\"horizontal\"><\/div><p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Czech-Republic-map.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-440\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Czech-Republic-map.jpg\" alt=\"Czech Republic map\" width=\"217\" height=\"233\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One of the congregations in our community was hosting a Presbyterian Clergy on a sabbatical for a week.\u00a0 He spent 3 hours with me at the hospital.\u00a0 We had a rich lively conversation about the differences between hospitals in the Czech Republic and the United States.\u00a0 In the Czech Republic they have a government controlled health system and everyone pays a mandated premium.\u00a0 The large cities are the locations of the best hospitals.\u00a0 Pre-qualification for treatments is required and high cost medical options are only available if you can pay the cost yourself.\u00a0 As we talked about the needs of the people, we found much more in common.\u00a0 Their patients have anxiety when they are sick, just like patients I encounter every day.\u00a0 Their patients have worries about health care coverage, just like our patients do.\u00a0 Their patients value pastoral care, just as our patients do.\u00a0 But in the Czech Republic when it was under communist rule, clergy were not allowed in the hospitals to visit patients.\u00a0 Trained chaplains are not nearly as common in their country as they are here in the USA.\u00a0 Though we had never met before it was amazing how much we shared in common as we took a look at the issues people face when they are in need of health care.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; One of the congregations in our community was hosting a Presbyterian Clergy on a sabbatical for a week.\u00a0 He spent 3 hours with me at the hospital.\u00a0 We had a rich lively conversation about the differences between hospitals in the Czech Republic and the United States.\u00a0 In the Czech Republic they have a government &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=439\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sept. 26 &#8211; A Guest from the Czec Republic<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":441,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions\/441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}