Reply #87: once again

[mairceridwen]

It's only appropriate if it has NOTHING to do with the doctor's beliefs and I am not advocating spiritual healing (apart from those who seek it from people trained to do it). I am just saying that a patient's religious and spiritual beliefs can sometimes affect his or her health and doctors should be concerned about that. If they can't do that without getting their own beliefs involved, then they shouldn't. That most doctors don't have time for those questions has nothing to do with the relavance of the issue, that is a separate problem entirely. And no, public school teachers are not next. The student-teacher relationship is drastically different from the relationship between an adult and his or her doctor and should be structured accordingly.