Word: doctors
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...refer patients to other care providers, such as social workers, psychologists and guided-imagery specialists. The point of all this isn't so much what the modality is; it's that the patient has a chance to find one that works. "People say you tell the truth to your doctor, your priest and your funeral director," says Smith, "because these people matter at the end." It's that truth - or at least a path to it - that chaplains seek to provide...
...think that it's any business of medicine, and I think it's extremely difficult for science to study. I am greatly supportive of the role of health-care chaplains for patients who have spiritual or religious concerns. But I don't think it's the doctor's job to be involved in that, other than to refer to a professional...
...important how one defines spiritual history and what actually goes into that. There's been a lot of fuzzy talk about what's screening, what's history, what's assessment. I would like to differentiate a history, and call that screening, and say that's the doctor's job. The physician's job, as Dr. Sloan pointed out correctly, is to discover where the problem is and get it pointed in the right direction. An assessment, a full [spiritual] assessment, would be the chaplain...
...people have concerns about physicians playing too much of a role in the religious and spiritual beliefs of patients, so we need to understand what both the doctor's and the patient's motivations are and try to understand when it shouldn't be done and why it shouldn't be done...
...thinking,” schoolteacher Leon Tolchinsky says. Doctor Zubritsky, the hapless Kulyenchikov resident whose daughter Tolchinsky must educate, responds in earnest.“What’s it like?” he asks. Strange as it may seem, Zubritsky’s question is no joke. He inquires in all seriousness, with a note of wonder and curiosity, because he is incapable of thinking. In Neil Simon’s “Fools,” performed with great enthusiasm by The F.U.D.G.E. Theatre Company at The Factory Theatre in Boston, the residents...