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Both physicians and chaplains, who promote patients’ spiritual well-being, should respectfully challenge patients when necessary: https://t.co/czsVvo7WPJ
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Physicians should accommodate patients’ religious or spiritual understanding of suffering, even when they disagree, as long as they uphold their commitment to health: https://t.co/1RnvpSITgF
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Respecting the patient can include challenging the patient’s reasoning, and physicians can decline to participate in interventions that they believe contradict their professional commitments: https://t.co/EWDPBi8gRv
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#Ethics case: A patient tells his surgeon that he doesn't want pain medication during an upcoming surgery, because "God wants me to be in pain." What should the medical team do? https://t.co/pGrwWPl4UW https://t.co/POUZK7kO4l