Should physicians pray with their patients? A recent article on Medscape posed this question to healthcare professionals. The responses ranged from the spiritual to the practical and the satirical.

The Registrar of the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria (NMCN), Dr Faruk Abu-Bakr, has said praying for patients by nurses has nothing to do with the conduct of the profession. Abu-Bakr, while ...

When a patient asks his or her doctor to go beyond diagnosis and treatment to offer spiritual support through prayer, this can present a conundrum. On the one hand, the physician may not share the ...

KENT, United Kingdom — A Christian doctor from Kent, United Kingdom, has appealed to Christians in professional life to “stand up and fight” after he faced investigation for offering his patients ...

While many patients do desire some level of spiritual interaction with their doctors, MDs should approach the situation cautiously, says Dr. Peter Ubel at The Atlantic: ‘As physicians, we interact ...