hey everybody my name is David Levitt with Be in Health and I'm honored to have
two very special people with me here we have Dr. Barbara Bopp and Dr. Felix Bopp
and they are coming through our for my life program this week, but it's not
your first time how many times have you been through it for my life this is the
third time we went to Be In... What's it called? For My Life
We've been through for my life twice we came this time with our children which was the
reason I was motivated this for this trip which has been outstanding as well and
we also after the first Be for my life we came to the marriage
oh yes that's really cool the the marriage conference yeah that's really
cool so you're both doctors tell us about what you do in your practice okay
so what Bob mederma a dermatologist and uh ever since I began practice I've
always really enjoyed taking care of the the problem but I've always always
wanted to prevent the prompt from coming back right so from a very early stage of
my practice and this wasn't something they really taught us in the residency
to do but I just knew I was always seeking to figure out what was the
underlying cause that would make their disease come back and so I would focus
on that and at the beginning of my career I would tell people that 80% of
the problems are psychological and as for the skin that's really common
because we have a lot of what we call neuro dermatitis skin manifestations
because of the way people think whoa so I told all my patients you need to have
psychological evaluation well it's a Christian I suddenly realized after I
learned about being helped from a surgical tech that was working with me
and she gave me the book for Christmas Omar
hello once I received the book and I started reading I realized that
psychological stuff is really our sole person our mind will and emotions and
that's what's getting my patients into trouble they begin to see that the
spiritual the spiritual component was really the underlying issue their home
right Wow so how long you been in practice up in your practice for 29
years in the ER and we've been in practice together okay dermatology and
fields just a facial plastic surgery so we're very cosmetic as well so a lot of
people come in to see us and at first we were wondering is this something God
wants us to do to work on like the more cosmetic part but what we find is that
when our patients cosmetically on the outside feel better it really actually
does help them on the inside to feel better
you know I mean talking about help help people look on the outside and their
body that's still an aspect of what God created first Thessalonians 5:23 it says
that the very God of peace was to sanctify his holy whu-oh l why okay
whole that our whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless that's
becoming for our Jesus Christ there's certainly a place for that you know and
in this journey as well so that's awesome so I didn't I didn't realize I
actually work together yes and you have different components of it well very
cool so what you know you said a surgical tech gave you the book a more
excellent way you read the book and you begin to see you know hey these things I
thought we're psychological problems are really beginning at the spirit level so
what drew you to come to for my life and investigate being held further okay well
I had I had a physical problem myself as a dermatologist of course our eyes
are really important because everything we see is how we diagnose so I had
finished seeing my patients for the day and this little shadow came over my eye
and I knew as a physician that I could be having what we call retinal
detachment hmm and so on so I called my good friend who's actually a retinal
specialist who's Jewish actually and and he said I'll see you tonight so
when you saw him but he said everything that's a problem when one I with the
with with the tear he said your retinas tearing is in the other eye he said
so let's laser this eye and then you come back and see me tomorrow and I'll
see what I need to do so I went back the next day he lasered the entire other eye
and as he did it he said something he said the Holy Spirit told me he's Jewish
the Holy Spirit had told me that I needed to laser both of your eyes so a
week later I'm coming in to see him because after the laser sometimes little
tears can continue to happen and he told me he said if I wouldn't have done this
he's I'm glad I'm glad I listen to the Holy Spirit because if I wouldn't have
done that she would have had bilateral retinal attachment which he said I
really that's really rare that doesn't happen and so on so within probably of
that happening within two months we came before my life because I wanted to
understand for me what was the underlying cause of this retinal
detachment my father had retinal detachment my sister had had rental
management and then I was having this issue so I said well maybe there's
something generation or maybe there's something that I need to deal with
myself so we came to for my life and while I was here I found out that I
wasn't totally trusting God and then I was putting man before God and it just
happened like two years before we had had a hurricane that hit our practice
and while they were renovating the handle out free time and I was checking
out all this new age information and as I was checking it out was like
discovering really different options of ways that have to help my page
and uh and they were right on and I realized after that for my life I went
back I didn't recommend acupuncture I can't recommend all these things that I
was recommending to patients because I didn't even realize after they taught me
about occultism really that's going through man's weight right God's Way so
my eyes are really open and well since that time I haven't had a problem with
my retina my retinas been great over it so I've been very very fortunate and so
on so that's my story that's really cool well Felix what are some things that
you've gotten personally out of this as well well I think part of what bar
restore that she left out was that when she first got the book she read through
it sparingly and put it on the shelf and then when she started losing her vision
she took the book off the shelf and ready to cover the coma
yeah at which point she said we have to go to Thomas in Georgia we have to we
want to see dr. bright and meet him to talk to and so so as a good husband I
didn't really be here but I went along to be a companion for my wife and
support her and I got as much as she did if not more spent that first week of
learning about the spiritual world and how it affects us and Satan's did plan
kill steal and destroy us so how that fit into our medical practice
was just added to when we first started to include God in our practice probably
about 10 years before that we'd gone on a mission trip to Honduras and it was
with a bunch of people from Georgia bunch of Baptist Christians here who
understood healing understood miraculous healing and we did we didn't really
believe in it we were very skeptical but on this trip we saw the rackets here Wow
they lightened about that God still does that it's real and so we came back to
our practice and we changed the way we treated our patients prior to this
mission trip I would pray for my patients at the sink I was washing my
hands just between me and God but while we were in Honduras we started
praying for patients and then when I came back Holy Spirit convicted me with
you didn't even know those people and you were praying for
why aren't you praying for your patient you didn't with my said so the first one
I prayed for was this old lady who had a skin cancer on her face and was was
scared to death and so I said this little prayer you know about God being
involved and minimal discomfort an excellent result just I'm just talking
to God about the case she starts crying and I said oh no because the Holy One
wanted to put the fear of me that you're gonna be the laughingstock community of
medical community and people are going to think you don't know enough about
medicine and she got to pray about it so these lies were in the back of my mind
that kind of held me back from doing it even though when I got that inclination
to pray for my patients so this first lady so she's crying and I'm thinking oh
I should have never done that but she regains her composure she says I was so
nervous about the surgery and the cancer when you prayed a peace came over me I
came into this world so from then on every patient that I operated on now
gets prayed for Wow so but before that before every patient I would really just
pray for the big things things that I thought you know God needed to be
involved with the little things that I thought I could handle myself the chip
shots I didn't bother God it was how it was my
thinking in that way so then I had to assist these two patients back-to-back
it's almost identical little sebaceous cysts on their back an easy little case
and so the first one I said I'm not going
they're kind of like this one I'm sweating it's taking me an hour what's
bleeding it's a mess finally we get it done and I said okay
god I get it so I said the Prater for the next one
well I'm telling you that sis almost popped out when it's owned as soon as I
made the incision is this incredible compliment of what he wanted me to do so
that's how we now pray for every patient really it's great to see that even as we
were talking about God is interested in our physical bodies even at this level
and and wants to get involved you know definitely the spiritual component but
you know also in our physical bodies and you know something I've heard kind of in
there is you overcame a lot of fear even of what other people thought and things
and certainly I trust that some of the things you learned here help you
separate yourself enough fear and and continue to include God in their
practices as you go on so well that's awesome I didn't I didn't know any of
that and it's just so cool to see you know what people like yourselves you're
both in the medical community you come here in Florida things about what God
has to say about our bodies and healing and you're incorporating that and that's
so awesome and you've been touched as well and you've got your family here and
I mean boy I mean that's that's awesome have your children here as well and what
that's going to do for the generations so thanks again for joining me is there
anything you want to say in closing thank um I guess the final thing is that
I do believe now when we treat patients we really do on a regular basis think of
the spiritual roots yeah and we do have to of course as physicians we have to go
ahead and give them the band-aid to give them the quick fix but we really
try to always seek what's really underlying it and I think patients
really appreciate that and they don't really get an enough tap out there so
I'm just hoping that more and more physicians will learn about this and
especially of the leaving physicians and hopefully maybe more physicians will
become believers excellent excellent thank you so much for your time y'all be
blessed out there we'll see you next time