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By Manya A. Brachear
Chicago — (MCT) After discovering that silence on matters of
spirituality left some patients unsatisfied with the care they received at the
University of Chicago, two doctors there and four faculty scholars have chosen
to examine how some medical schools either encourage or discourage physicians to
integrate their faith both in conversations with patients and their own
professional lives. Doctors who set their faith aside, they say, can become
disillusioned and less effective.
"When doctors are dispirited, the care they give to patients is worse," said
Dr. Farr Curlin, co-director of the Program on Medicine and Religion. "Patients
should be very hopeful that their doctor sees their work as a remarkable
privilege, even a holy privilege, that will make the doctor respond to that
patient out of joy."
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