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David V. Poer, M.D., F.A.C.S.
 Biography
Training
Board Certification
Fellowship
Staff Hospital Appointments
Memberships
Spiritual Concerns
Biography:
Since 1981, Dr. Poer has limited his practice to diseases and disorders of the vitreous and retina.
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Training:
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Spiritual Concerns
Dr. Poer says "God has been trustworthy, good and full of grace through all life’s stresses, challenges and in my personal failures. God is amazingly good for all who believe in Him. I take comfort in Jesus’ promise in John 16:33, ‘In Me, you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world’. More recently, I have been increasingly aware and amazed that He chooses to live in me (and you), has given me and all believers a new nature, and He can then live His life uniquely through me".
Dr. Poer’s priority is to know and love God as best expressed in Philippians 3:10: "that I might know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His suffering; being conformed to His death." Secondly, is to love others with the love of God. Finally, his goal is to maintain the highest level of excellence in his medical practice, treating all as unique individuals, meeting their needs as best he can for as long as they need him or until the Lord calls him home.
As a regular churchgoer from early childhood, Dr. Poer believed in the basic goodness of man until he read in the Bible that "goodness" wasn’t enough. According to Matthew 5:48, "you must be perfect even as your heavenly Father is perfect". Since perfection is unattainable, God offers the solution: because of His great love for man, God has provided a means by which sin can be forgiven and anyone can know Him. Romans 3:23 says, "All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God", and Jesus said, "I am the way the truth and the life; no one comes to the Father except by Me". (John 14:6) In John 3:16, Jesus also said, "For God so loved the world that he gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life". Believing this without personalizing it is not enough. The Bible says: "As many as received Him (Jesus) to them He gave the right to become sons of God, even to those who believe in His name". (John 1:12) Agreeing that God’s gift of forgiveness through Christ far exceeded Dr. Poer’s best efforts at perfection, he accepted God’s free gift of sonship his freshman year in college and started his journey.
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