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Clear priorities set stage for growth

By J.G. Askar

Church News

Friday, Jul. 10, 2009

A surgeon by trade, Elder Kent F. Richards finished performing a life-saving procedure on a young man rushed to the emergency room with a ruptured appendix. Elder Richards set down his instruments, stepped back from the operating table and disrobed – first his mask, then the gown and lastly his gloves.

Elder Richards sat down at the desk in the operating room and wrote post-op orders. The anesthesiologist began the task of waking the patient up. It was mid-May.

In terms of outward appearances, the routine was so similar to what Elder Richards had done thousands of times before. But this post-op wrap-up was different for Elder Richards. His call to the Second Quorum of the Seventy in April general conference necessitated retirement. After almost 32 years as a surgeon, he knew he had most likely just performed his final surgery.

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This story is provided by the LDS Church News, an official publication of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It is produced weekly by the Deseret News.

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