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Devotional and Inspirational items on the desk of Chaplain Rev. Dunbar-Perkins at Abbott Northwestern Hospital.

This is my third, or technically my fourth career. And I come out of the corporate arena and moved into education and then moved into ministry, but I think it would be helpful to backtrack. I originally [was] born and raised on the South Side of…

And even us in the health care profession, we think when we say, 'Oh no, you can't eat that bacon, it's gonna make your blood pressure go up.' But you know, you live for having that bacon and eggs every Saturday morning. And it's the ritual around…

For many people, there are two different scenarios I see here—and this doesn't include everything—but you're in a hospital, you don't have control over what you eat, when you wake up, even when you go to the bathroom. You know, the basics, what you…

In terms of diversity, the, one of the challenges also is not just the diversity of the patients but the diversity of the caregivers, the chaplains. And I think in the twenty-first century this is another shift that we're looking at, we're having…

Rev. Dunbar-Perkins describes the objects in her office

I'm a non-threatening entity and, even more importantly, I'm not some Christian trying to get them to believe in Jesus. And that would be the reputation—the two reputations that chaplains have. Most of them over the years, in a hospital setting, have…

Many people, especially after you have a colon cancer or some other, sometimes Crohn's disease, diseases that interfere with your large intestine, your bowels. This is a hospital, this is how we talk. And you may have to have something where all of…

A picture of Rev. Ann Bergstrom in her office.

From a Jewish point of view, I would say this comfortably, and even probably my colleagues as well, is that it's holy work. So it's really very, in that way, similar to being a clergy person in general. [baby noises and shushing] The amount of stuff…