Word: doctores
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...culture of the medical school is secular, with relatively little discussion of faith in social medicine and patient-doctor courses. From my experience, acknowledging a patient’s or a caregiver’s faith in actual hospital care almost never happens...
...never forget when one of my attendings told me that when sick patients ask her to pray with her, she just holds their hands, “because that’s what they really mean anyhow.” A more honest answer would be for the doctor to admit that she doesn’t believe in God and doesn’t feel at ease praying with the patient. That attending is an exceptionally capable and compassionate physician. But she’s probably uncomfortable with dealing with the role of faith in death and disease...
Health care. Hospitals actively recruit midlife career changers. You do not have to be a doctor or a nurse. In many cases you can train while you work for pay and benefits as a lab assistant or in areas like music or art therapy, or radiology...
What it all adds up to is a revolutionary view of extreme headaches that treats them as serious, biologically based disorders on a par with epilepsy or Alzheimer's disease. "Before, patients got shipped around from doctor to doctor until eventually they wound up at a psychologist," says Dr. Joel Saper, director of the Michigan Head-Pain and Neurological Institute in Ann Arbor. Now their headaches are seen as the result of wayward circuits and molecules, not personality disorders...
...speaking out against an Italian Parliament bill to allow civil unions for gay couples. But perhaps the most visceral criticism came when the Church denied Catholic funeral rites to an Italian victim of Lou Gehrig?s disease, named Piergiorgio Welby, who had campaigned for euthanasia before dying when a doctor unplugged his respirator...