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- Indeed, throughout history, religion and spirituality and the practice of medicine have been intertwined. As a result, many religions embrace caring for the sick as a primary mission, and many of the world's leading medical institutions have religious and spiritual roots.
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It is perhaps tempting for those of us in health care, and related fields, to dismiss religion and religious groups as incompatible with evidence-based medicine. But we risk doing a disservice to the majority of the world who are religious by not engaging with these groups in good faith.
Religion and spirituality in medicine can help clinicians empathize with their patients, collaborate with hospital chaplains, and advance faith-based initiatives, hospital policy, and legislation.
- Danish Zaidi
- 2018
As Mueller and colleagues suggested, physicians can take a spiritual history-find out whether religious or spiritual beliefs are used to cope, are evoking religious struggles, are likely to influence medical decisions, or are responsible for other special needs that trained clergy may help with.
- Harold G. Koenig
- 2001
Aug 1, 2012 · Religion today still intersects with medicine in surprisingly diverse ways, some of them assuming roles not very different from the forms they took in the ancient world: helping the sick to live with pain and suffering, providing compassionate care for those who are ill, and offering spiritual consolation to the sick and dying.
Although medical science is powerful, and although physicians are respected members of society, patients are frequently more influenced by their immediate communities—especially when those communities are formed around counter-cultural religious practice.
Oct 9, 2021 · With discussions ranging from historical to modern-day views, and the international, national, community, and personal dimensions of the relationship, Levin’s work explores the multitude of ways in which religion and medicine interplay to affect the health and well-being of persons.
In order to best interpret how the significant human dimension of religion and spirituality should be understood in considering the health and care of pluralistic diverse communities, it is crucial to examine the implications of the intersections of religion and medicine in clinical practice and in the health of communities.
