While people use many different religions and paths to find God or to express their spirituality, research has shown that those who are more religious or spiritual and use their spirituality to cope with life, experience many benefits to their health and well-being. Many of the current generation of physicians and nurses have been trained to think of religion and science as opposites of one another. On top of that, medical education does not typically focus on religion or spirituality and its role in healthcare. This is a stark difference from historical times when the religious leader and/or priest and the physician healer were one and the same.
The advent of science in our society pushed a separation of faith and science. Yet it doesn’t have to be that way. It is possible to reconcile your religious or spiritual beliefs with your medical care — and studies have shown that it can…
