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Religion or spirituality is often used to help frame the diagnosis in a new way that provides meaning and purpose. Health care providers can benefit by knowing the role spirituality plays in these patients' lives, leading to better awareness of the support networks needed to help cope with the diagnosis, leading to more empathetic care. [1]
A religious community can provide support especially through a stressful life event such as the death of a loved one or illness. There is the belief that a higher power will provide healing and strength through the rough times which also can explain the lower mortality rate of religious people vs. secular people.
Reviews and discussions have appeared in The New Yorker, [1] Freethought Today, [2] First Things, [3] Journal of the American Medical Association, [4] The Gerontologist, [5] the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, [6] Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, [7] The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, [8] Journal of Hospice & Palliative Nursing, [9] Journal of ...
Dec. 25—One of the country's largest faith-based medical cost-sharing groups has filed a lawsuit saying the state is violating its religious rights by attempting to prevent such entities from ...
The Supreme Court of Canada has made several important decisions concerning Jehovah's Witnesses.These include laws that affected the activities of Jehovah's Witnesses in the 1950s and more recent cases dealing with whether Witness parents had the right to decide what medical treatment was in the best interest of their children based on their faith.
An informed consent clause, although allowing medical professionals not to perform procedures against their conscience, does not allow professionals to give fraudulent information to deter a patient from obtaining such a procedure (such as lying about the risks involved in an abortion to deter one from obtaining one) in order to impose one's belief using deception.
Believers assert that the healing of disease and disability can be brought about by religious faith through prayer or other rituals that, according to adherents, can stimulate a divine presence and power. Religious belief in divine intervention does not depend on empirical evidence of an evidence-based outcome achieved via faith healing. [2]
Val Kilmer's kids were the sole reason behind his decision to seek traditional cancer treatment. In an interview with The New York Times, the 60-year-old actor discusses how he initially planned ...