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...don’t mean to imply that the choice was intentional. This muddled double-entendre, however, evokes a disturbing failure of medical education at Harvard—a consistent failure to engage the important role of religion in medical care...
...context of an otherwise thoughtful medical curriculum that includes social phenomena that affect patient care, like socio-economic, linguistic, and racial issues. The underlying principle is that we need to learn about issues that are important to our patients–issues that affect patient care. But with religion, the medical school misses its own principle...
America is a devout nation, and our patients are generally religious. If the medical school continues to give short-shrift to religion in medical education, then graduates of the medical school will be less prepared to deliver effective care...
Schools rightly want to preserve their secular orientation. But too often, that attempt becomes an avoidance of even discussing religion, which is absolutely central to death and disease for so many of us, caregivers and patients alike. I’ll 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...
...many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. Unfortunately, too many people in the Western world mistakenly perceive it as an expression of powerlessness and oppression. And increasingly it is being turned into a political tool. Modernity is not about dress codes. Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive. In Jordan, a woman cannot be forced to wear a veil against her will...