Physicians can fulfill their professional responsibilities to patients when those responsibilities conflict with moral commitments of the hospital or clinic where the patient encounter occurs.

There are limitations in survey-gathered empirical data that describe complex associations between beliefs and end-of-life medical behavior.

The clinician/healer must both address the disease and seek to know how the medical condition is being experienced by the patient—what impact it has on his or her life and spirit.

Physicians can fulfill their professional responsibilities to patients when those responsibilities conflict with moral commitments of the hospital or clinic where the patient encounter occurs.

The range of opinions on the extent to which physicians should attend to their patients’ spiritual lives and the arguments that support those opinions.

Medicine and medical ethics have separated themselves from confessional stances—to adapt a phrase, the separation of church and medicine has become the norm.

The range of opinions on the extent to which physicians should attend to their patients’ spiritual lives and the arguments that support those opinions.

With good planning and good will, medical professionals’ right of conscience and patients’ rights to controversial services can be both protected and accommodated.

The Indian Health Service was created within the Department of Health and Human Services to integrate traditional Indian healing with Western biomedicine.

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