Entre La Vida y la Biblia · Alfonso Quevedo

Dios no desperdicia nada - Feat. Camila Torres - Entre la vida y la Biblia Podcast | EP 48

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Alone in a factory, Camila Torres turned off a powerful filling machine that kept running — and in those seconds, she prayed to God as all five fingers of her left hand were crushed in its rollers.

1. Entre la Vida y la Biblia, hosted by Pastor Alfonso Quevedo, presents an interview-format episode exploring how Romans 8:28 ('all things work together for good for those who love God') applies to real-life trauma. 2. The guest is Camila Andrea Torres Ruiz, a fifth-year medical student from Colombia who attends Pastor Alfonso's church; she is completing her undergraduate year before a clinical internship. 3. The episode's central question is: how can a traumatic loss — losing all five fingers of one's left hand — be part of God's plan for good? 4. Camila was studying psychology at the National University when she took a vacation job at a toy factory; her mother, who had trained her since childhood in emergency first aid, air force rescue, and firefighting, warned her against the job as unrelated to her studies. 5. Fewer than 15 days into the job, a new filling processor machine was installed; Camila was alone when the machine, still generating force after being switched off, caught a fabric moth she was trying to extract — pulling all five fingers of her left hand into its rollers. 6. In the silence of the surrounding factory noise, Camila did not call for help; instead she prayed 'God, only you can get me out of this situation,' and says the fingers released, having been fractured to the bone. 7. Drawing on her first-aid training, she applied compression with her uninjured hand, placed the fingers in a new plastic bag, walked upstairs, calmly informed the factory owner of the 'traumatic amputation of five fingers of the left hand,' and called her mother. 8. Her mother — a paramedic — went into shock on the phone; Camila's younger sister Paola prompted their mother to act, and their mother called an emergency doctor at Clínica San José Centro, where Camila was already in triage. 9. At triage, Camila was initially de-prioritised when an elderly patient arrived in a wheelchair — she did not argue because 'he was the one in charge'; she was finally fast-tracked when the emergency doctor recognised her as her mother's daughter. 10. In the reanimation room, Camila sat calmly while nurses cleaned her hand and channelled her IV; she asked the surgeon to let her lie down only when she felt she was about to faint from blood loss. 11. The surgeon told her 'you are the most brave girl I know' as he cleaned the wound for surgery; Camila says she cried silently but viewed everything through the lens of her paramedic training rather than as a patient. 12. In the recovery room, she told her mother 'five fingers went to heaven before me, look at the positive side, the manicure will now cost me half the price' — framing her dark humour as a deliberate coping strategy. 13. After the accident Camila withdrew from psychology and enrolled in medicine, telling God: 'You gave me a new life opportunity, I am going to do what I really like and that is medicine, to help other people.' 14. In her clinical rotations at a pediatric ICU in Bolivar, Colombia, she encountered children who had lost limbs to snake bites, burns, and accidents — and was able to speak to them from personal experience, showing her left hand and saying 'if I did it, holding God's hand, you can do it.' 15. Her medical professors demanded more from her, not less, because of her physical condition, telling her 'I know you can do it better than those who have ten fingers' — a moment she describes as confirming God's faithfulness. 16. Camila has declined UN and organisational offers for a prosthetic hand, saying 'the little stump is already part of me — it would no longer be me,' and notes the amputation has not prevented her from intubating patients, passing catheters, or assisting in surgery. 17. When asked what she would say to people facing smaller but painful losses — jobs, marriages, relationships — Camila answers: 'understand that this is temporary, and that our identity as citizens is not on this earth.' 18. The episode closes with Camila praying for listeners facing loss, followed by Pastor Alfonso citing 2 Corinthians where Paul writes 'this light and momentary trouble is not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed.' 19. Christian listeners facing personal hardship, physical disability, medical vocations, or questions about suffering will find the episode directly applicable. 20. Listeners seeking theological exposition or doctrinal content rather than a personal testimony will find the episode primarily experiential rather than systematic.

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