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Is there a link between faith and health? Evidence from over 1,200 studies and 400 reviews has shown an association between faith and a number of positive health benefits, including protection from illness, coping with illness, and faster recovery from it. Of the studies reviewed in the definitive analysis, (3)...
To pray or not to pray?The subject of praying with patients received much media scrutiny after nurse Caroline Petrie was suspended in 2009 for offering to pray with a patient. (1) Spiritual health is an important aspect of holistic care. The British Medical Association 2009 conference recognised this, but failed...
God gave me a clear instruction: 'Follow me'. Have I dropped everything and done just that? Do I love him first and foremost in my life, forsaking everything, even my closest relationships? I know a true disciple is prepared to forsake his family and his career for him alone. Am...
(published: Christian Concern)
We are taught as medical students to be holistic in our management approach, considering a patient's physical, emotional, social and spiritual needs. However, step into the hectic buzz of a ward... bleeps, patient alarms, drips going off, a patient's relative asking questions, another patient being taken away for physiotherapy, for...
This book was written from the author's experience of having a critically ill newborn and the years of isolation, hospital admissions and operations that followed. The spiritual wilderness and lack of spiritual support Philo experienced spurred her to write these simple meditations on caring for a critically or chronically ill...
In February 2009, national attention was drawn to the case of Caroline Petrie, a community nurse suspended after offering to pray for a patient. (2) She was subsequently offered her job back on the proviso she asked patients about their spiritual needs first before offering to pray for them. Her...
