LIVING THE QUESTIONS
Healthcare Ethics • Clinical Ethics • Ethics Consultation • Medical & Health Humanities • Faith & Life
Learning. Analyzing. Reflecting. Growing in Practice.
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Living the Questions
Where healthcare, faith, and ordinary life meet
Healthcare ethics. Faith. Life. Questions worth staying with.
Life rarely gives us only one kind of question.
A healthcare decision can become a family question. A family question can become a faith question. A professional decision can become deeply personal. And sometimes an ordinary moment can make us rethink something we thought we already understood.
That is what interests me.
I’m Lydie. I hold a doctorate in Medical and Health Humanities, and my work has been shaped by theology, ministry, community life, and questions of care, dignity, vulnerability, and justice. I am continuing to deepen my work in healthcare ethics, clinical ethics, and ethics consultation, but I am also paying attention to the questions that come from everyday life.
This space is where those worlds meet.
What happens when the answer is not obvious?
A treatment may be medically possible, but is it always the right choice?
A person may have the right to choose, but what happens when that choice worries everyone around them?
Faith may give someone hope, but what happens when faith and medicine seem to point in different directions?
And outside healthcare, how do we make sense of disappointment, change, purpose, relationships, leadership, and the unexpected turns of life?
I want to stay with those questions long enough to learn something from them.
Sometimes I will write from what I am reading.
Sometimes from what I am studying.
Sometimes from ministry.
Sometimes from life.
And sometimes I may simply admit that I am still thinking.
Living the Questions is about more than finding answers. It is about noticing what the question is asking of us.
“Health is never only medical. It is personal, ethical, cultural, spiritual, and deeply human. That is why some questions deserve more than a quick answer.”
— Lydie Kadibwa Ngoie
Scholarship & Research
I read because I want my thinking to be challenged.
Here, I keep notes on books, articles, cases, and scholars that make me stop, question an assumption, or see a healthcare problem differently.
Some of these readings connect with my doctoral work in Medical and Health Humanities. Others are part of my deeper study of healthcare ethics, clinical ethics, and ethics consultation.
I am not here to summarize every book I read.
I want to know:
What did I learn? What do I question? And how might this matter when real people are involved?
Clinical Ethics Case Reflections & Ethics in Practice
I thought the answer was simple. Then I looked closer.
That happens often in healthcare ethics. A case may seem straightforward until you consider the patient’s wishes, the family, the medical facts, faith, culture, or something no one has asked about yet.
This is where I slow down and work through those cases.
What is really happening here? Who needs to be heard? What am I missing? And if there is no perfect answer, what would a good next step look like?
Sometimes I may change my mind along the way. That is part of learning to think carefully about difficult decisions.
What I’m Reading & Learning
What I’m developing starts with what I’m willing to learn.
This is where I keep track of the ideas that are shaping me before they become finished work. I share what I am reading, what catches my attention, what I question, and what makes me look at an issue differently.
Some readings may strengthen what I already think. Others may challenge me or send me looking for another perspective.
This is not my finished scholarship. It is a window into what is developing my thinking.
Faith & Life
Some things I understand through faith. Others I understand only after living through them.
This is the part of the site where I step away from healthcare and simply write from life.
I may write about ministry, family, culture, disappointment, joy, leadership, change, or something ordinary that stayed with me longer than I expected.
Sometimes Scripture will help me make sense of what I am experiencing. Sometimes experience will make me read Scripture differently.
And sometimes I may not have a lesson at all.
I may just have a story, a question, or something I am still carrying.That is enough to write about
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