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.

Kent Brantly

When I became ill, I started to experience what my patients had suffered under my care.

Kent Brantly

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.

Kent Brantly

I've thought a lot about the moment when I was infected with Ebola.

Kent Brantly

When you go a week without seeing a human face, that does something to you.

Kent Brantly

I am very convinced that I did not contract Ebola in the isolation unit, because our process is so safe.

Kent Brantly

God blessed me with a peace that surpasses understanding.

Kent Brantly

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.

Kent Brantly

Even with the bad news, I felt calm. I never shed a tear when I called my wife and said, 'Amber, my test is positive. I have Ebola.'

Kent Brantly

What I can tell you is that I serve a faithful God who answers prayers.

Kent Brantly

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.

Kent Brantly

Please continue to pray for and bring attention to those suffering in the ongoing Ebola crisis in West Africa.

Kent Brantly

There are a lot of health care providers in this country who have a very deep sense of service and compassion for the suffering of others, who are motivated to go to West Africa despite the risks of infection and death. And doctors and nurses face those risks every day regardless of their setting.

Kent Brantly

Pray for the people of West Africa. You cannot be apathetic towards people for whom you are earnestly praying.

Kent Brantly

My 4-year-old son prays every night for his best friend who is the same age - our next door neighbor in Liberia, a little Liberian boy: 'Dear God, please don't let him get Ebola.' I'm proud of him for thinking about his friend and praying for him but that's not a prayer that a 4-year-old should have to consider.

Kent Brantly

The nature of Ebola is that health-care workers are predominantly affected because of the way that it is spread.

Kent Brantly

I know that some consider it controversial for me to claim that God saved my life when I had received an experimental drug and some of the greatest medical care available in the world. I can see how these two realities appear to contradict each other.

Kent Brantly

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.

Kent Brantly

Ebola's a terrifying disease.

Kent Brantly

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.

Kent Brantly

As the Ebola virus continued to consume my patients, I witnessed the horror this disease visits upon its victims, the intense pain and humiliation of those who suffer with it.

Kent Brantly