Words matter. These are the best Kent Brantly Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
My wife Amber and I, along with our two children, did not move to Liberia for the specific purpose of fighting Ebola.
When a person survives Ebola, when they recover, they’re not a carrier of the virus.
What I can tell you is that I serve a faithful God who answers prayers.
I’ve thought a lot about the moment when I was infected with Ebola.
I chose a career in medicine because I wanted a tangible skill with which to serve people. And so my role as a physician is my attempt to do that.
Through the care of the Samaritan’s Purse and SIM missionary team in Liberia, the use of an experimental drug, and the expertise and resources of the health care team at Emory University Hospital, God saved my life – a direct answer to thousands and thousands of prayers.
I am very convinced that I did not contract Ebola in the isolation unit, because our process is so safe.
Ebola is a humiliating disease that strips you of your dignity. You are removed from family and put into isolation where you cannot even see the faces of those caring for you due to the protective suits – you can only see their eyes.
The nature of Ebola is that health-care workers are predominantly affected because of the way that it is spread.
Just like medicine anywhere else, I get to walk through life with people in the midst sometimes of their most difficult and challenging circumstances they’ve faced – a terminal diagnosis, bad news, poor prognosis – and also the most joyful times with people, like the birth of a new baby.
When you go a week without seeing a human face, that does something to you.
On Octover 16th, 2013, I moved to Liberia with my family to serve as a medical missionary at ELWA Hospital in the capital city of Morovia.
You never know who is walking around with a fever who took some Tylenol to make themselves feel better.
Please continue to pray for and bring attention to those suffering in the ongoing Ebola crisis in West Africa.
In theory, and I think in practice, I am immune to the strain of Ebola that I was infected with. But there are five different strains of Ebola.
Faith is central to my life. I am who I am, I do what I do because of my faith.
I wasn’t afraid of treating Ebola patients in the isolation unit. That was the safest job. But seeing patients in the clinic, seeing patients in the emergency room, being in the community – those things gave me pause.
I’ve had time to reflect on what happened to me. Am I the same person I was before Ebola? In a lot of ways, yes. I don’t live every moment with a conscious awareness of what I’ve been through.
God blessed me with a peace that surpasses understanding.
Losing so many patients certainly was difficult, but it didn’t make me feel like a failure as a physician, because I had learned that there was so much more to being a physician than curing illness. That’s not the most important thing we do. The most important thing we do is enter into the suffering of others.
