AT THE CHICAGO EPIDEMIOLOGY DEPARTMENT THAT COULD NOT STOP THE KILLIMNG BEACOUSE COULD NOT ESTABLISHE THE COUSE OF EPIDEMIC DEATH THEY WERE PHYSICIANS ( OR SHOULD HABVE CREDENTIALS).
- From: ac <agnescherry@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 12:05:41 -0800 (PST)
AT THE CHICAGO EPIDEMIOLOGY DEPARTMENT THAT COULD NOT STOP THE
KILLING
BEACOUSE COULD NOT ESTABLISHE THE COUSE OF EPIDEMIC DEATH THEY WERE
PHYSICIANS ( OR SHOULD HABVE CREDENTIALS).
I BET THEY BE SELECTIVE AGAIN. THEY HAVE TO BE MONITORED BY THE
WOLRD OPINION.
AND WE CAN DO IT TOO.
NOW THEY JUMP AT THE PHONY STILL.
( IN MY MEMORY THERE ARE SIMILAR INCIDENTS IN THE LONG PAST - ALWAYS
LACK
OF EPIDEMIOLOGICAL FINDING TO CONTINUE KILLING; WHILE IS SO EASY TO
STOP
WITHOUT ANY EPIDEMIOLOGIST)
"Clinical Scholars Program delves into physician spirituality
A $2.6-million, three-year grant from the John Templeton Foundation
will allow Farr Curlin, MD, and Daniel Sulmasy, MD, co-directors of
the Program on Medicine and Religion at the University of Chicago, to
create a Clinical Scholars Program designed to provide the essential
infrastructure for the spiritual renewal of the medical profession.
The Program will begin by recruiting eight University of Chicago
faculty to help take the spiritual “pulse” of medicine by researching
the relationship between professional satisfaction and the spiritual
lives of physicians.
“Medicine is a sacred practice,” says Curlin, associate professor of
medicine and associate director of the MacLean Center for Clinical
Medical Ethics. “We’ll probe how physicians relate their work to the
religious traditions they hold and how they could see their work as
having moral and spiritual meaning.”
Arete has been involved since the Program on Medicine and Religion was
conceived five years ago, also with the help of a Templeton grant.
More recently with the Clinical Scholars Program, Arete has helped
visualize the initial concept and plan how to get there; provided
successful models and critical feedback; coordinated efforts across
campus and approached potential donors.
“None of this would have come together without Arete’s direction and
connections,” Curlin says.
Exploring new groundOver the years, there has been much scholarship on
the impact of religion on patients and health care outcomes but
virtually none on the spirituality of the practice of medicine, i.e.,
the religious characteristics of physicians and how physicians’
religious commitments shape the clinical encounter. This has been seen
as a threat to medicine’s scientific principles “because it introduces
personal and private elements,” Curlin says.
Nevertheless, religion and spirituality are “inescapably” linked to
how a physician practices, Curlin says. “In fact, spiritual beliefs
and traditions are among the best resources that physicians can and
should draw upon.”
Recent surveys conducted by Curlin and colleagues found that
physicians are more spiritual than many people realize. Physicians are
as likely to have a religious affiliation as members of the general
population. They are more likely to attend religious services
regularly. And two-thirds of them carry religion into other parts of
their lives.
(The Program defines “spirituality” as the ways in which a person
habitually conducts his life in relationship to the question of
transcendence and “religion” as adherence to a set of institutional
beliefs and practices.)
Most physicians endorse the importance of addressing spiritual
concerns of patients, particularly in the context of life, death and
serious illness, says Sulmasy, professor of medicine and ethics and
associate director of the MacLean Center. “Physicians and ministers
face some of the same questions, but we think medicine can be
vigorously scientific as well as deeply spiritual.”
In addition to exploring such issues, the grant will help develop a
new field, the spirituality of medicine. “We’ll create and support a
community of scholars with training in religion and medical science
who could become leaders in this new interdisciplinary field,” Sulmasy
says. “And there’s no better place to do this than the University of
Chicago with top medical and divinity schools.”
The Clinical Scholars Program will be modeled on another University
asset—the MacLean Center, which after twenty years is the leading
clinical ethics program in the country and has trained more physicians
in ethics that any other program in the world.
“The Clinical Scholars Program will go a long way toward developing
the Program on Medicine and Religion into the world’s leading center
for research, policy and intellectual discourse regarding the
intersection of religion and the practice of medicine,” says Ken
Olliff, co-director of Arete.
By Greg Borzo
A new program led by Farr Curlin, MD, (right) and Daniel Sulmasy, MD,
will research the relationship between professional satisfaction and
the spiritual lives of physicians.
Photo by Lloyd DeGrane
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