Is spirituality something that can be taught?
Medical students in the University of Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences are being introduced this fall to a new set of courses incorporating spirituality into their training to become physicians. continues…
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If you feel a patient needs counseling, who are you more likely to refer him to, a psychiatrists or a pastor?
A study by researchers with the University of Chicago Medical Center published in the September 2007 issue of Psychiatric Services found that the least religious of all medical specialties is psychiatry. Furthermore, it found that religious physicians, especially Protestants, are less likely to refer patients to psychiatrists, and more likely to send them to members of the clergy or to a religious counselor. continues…
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Should you be forced to perform a procedure that is against your religious beliefs? continues…
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It looks like doctors who consider themselves religious are slightly less charitable than their atheist and agnostic colleagues. So says a new survey by University of Chicago and Yale New Haven Hospital researchers.
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