The importance of spirituality in medicine and its application to clinical practice

摘要: Recent international and Australian surveys have shown that there is a need to incorporate the spiritual religious dimension of patients into their management. By keeping patients' beliefs, spiritual/religious needs supports separate from care, we are potentially ignoring an important element may be at core coping support systems integral wellbeing recovery. A consensus panel American College Physicians has suggested four simple questions physicians could ask when taking history. Doctors clinicians should not "prescribe" beliefs or activities impose on patients. The task in-depth counselling best done by trained clergy. In considering patient, clinician sending message he she concerned with whole person. This enhances patient-physician relationship likely increase therapeutic impact interventions. Doctors, health care professionals mental required learn about ways in which religion culture can influence