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Deep Doctoring: Spiritual Inquiry in the Doctor-Patient Relationship

Primary Author: Joseph Rotella, Hospice and Palliative Care of Louisville

Article from the Oates Journal discussing whether patients welcome spiritual inquiry from doctors, what medical spiritual assessment is, the doctor's role in spiritual care, and training doctors to address spiritual concerns.

Date Last Modified 12/31/2001 Article

Discussing Spirituality With Patients: A Rational and Ethical Approach

Primary Author: Gary McCord, Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine

Article from the Annals of Family Medicine describing a survey of adults in an out-patient setting, studying when patients feel physician inquiry about spirituality or religious beliefs is appropriate, reasons why they want their physicians to know about their spiritual beliefs, and what they want physicians to do with this information. 921 people completed the survey, which helps helps clarify the nature of patient preferences for spiritual discussion with physicians.

Date Last Modified 07/01/2004 Article

Empathy and the Practice of Medicine: Beyond Pills and the Scalpel

Primary Author: Howard M. Spiro, Yale University School of Medicine

From the publisher:

"The book-a collection of essays by physicians, philosophers, and a nurse-is divided into three parts: one deals with how empathy is weakened or lost during the course of medical education and suggests how to remedy this; another describes the historical and philosophical origins of empathy and provides arguments for and against it; and a third section offers compelling accounts of how physicians' empathy for their patients has affected their own lives and the lives of those in their care."

Date Last Modified 12/31/1993 Book

Encountering the Sacred in Psychotherapy How to Talk with People about Their Spiritual Lives

Primary Author: James L. Griffith, GWUMC

Primarily written for psychotherapists, counselors, and others working in mental health, this book serves as a guide to "exploring the creative and healing possibilities in clients' spiritual and religious experience. Vivid personal accounts and dialogues bring to life the ways spirituality may influence the stories told in therapy, the language and metaphors used, and the meanings brought to key relationships and events. Applications are discussed for a wide variety of clinical situations, including helping people resolve relationship problems, manage psychiatric symptoms, and cope with medical illnesses".

Date Last Modified 07/01/2003 Book

Evidence-Based Case Review: Addressing the religious and spiritual needs of dying patients

Primary Author: Daniel P. Sulmasy, The John J Conley Department of Ethics St Vincent's, Manhattan

Article from the Western Journal of Medicine (Volume 175) offering a review of literature about the spiritual needs of a patient at the end of life, with a focus on physician-patient communication.

Date Last Modified 10/01/2001 Article, Case example/study