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Archive: August 5, 2007 - August 11, 2007
The Doctor as Artist and Chicken Soup as Prescription
Healing is an art that goes beyond mere science and morality transcends legal jargon.
By Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo | August 10, 2007; 12:26 PM ET | Comments (28)
Balance of Rights
Patients should not be required to accept treatments that they consider immoral.
By Pamela K. Taylor | August 10, 2007; 11:56 AM ET | Comments (45)
Jesus, the Healer
Christian physicians don’t have to look very far for an example of what to do about this. Jesus was a healer. He touched people that would make him unclean. Or he healed people on the Sabbath to the chagrin of...
By Bob Edgar | August 10, 2007; 10:51 AM ET | Comments (13)
Honesty Best Patient Policy
Physicians' primary obligations are to their patients, without a doubt. They have other obligations, of course, including to wider society, to their professional colleagues, both physicians and other health care professionals, to their employing institutions, and to their own ethical...
By Julia Neuberger | August 10, 2007; 8:15 AM ET | Comments (7)
Doctors Are Not Gods
It is unconscionable for doctors to deprive patients of information they need to make an informed choice. The Bush administration has encouraged this kind of misleading, faith-based medicine.
By Susan Jacoby | August 9, 2007; 10:28 AM ET | Comments (714)
Physician, Heal Thy Patients
Most doctors respect the religious beliefs of their patients, except when they might conflict with sound medicine and the best interests of the patient.
By Cal Thomas | August 9, 2007; 9:25 AM ET | Comments (25)
The Patient-Physician Religious Relationship
Once a physician-patient relationship is established, the primary responsibility is to the whole person, body and soul.
By William J. Byron | August 9, 2007; 8:46 AM ET | Comments (16)
Compassion and Conscience
A professional’s obligations are not simply to the client/patient. There are obligations also to society at large and the common good.
By Thomas J. Reese, S.J. | August 9, 2007; 6:05 AM ET | Comments (10)
Putting the Patient First: Not All Conscience is Created Equal
As with so much else in health care today, the “good of my patient” is now becoming the last consideration of some health care providers, not the first and foremost as Hippocrates taught.
By Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite | August 7, 2007; 4:34 PM ET | Comments (69)
The Senate's First Hindu Prayer. What Took So Long?
Voters last November effectively extended the religious pluralism within the House of Representatives by electing a Muslim and two Buddhists to that chamber.
By Gustav Niebuhr | August 7, 2007; 1:10 AM ET | Comments (33)
All the Deities vs. No God At All
Notice that the Pledge of Allegiance is about “one NATION under God” not “a nation under ONE GOD.”
By Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo | August 6, 2007; 10:09 AM ET | Comments (48)
YES to the Prayer and the Protesters
The roots of American democracy are not multicultural but culture-specific: Bible + Enlightenment.
By Willis E. Elliott | August 6, 2007; 9:42 AM ET | Comments (44)
Implementing the First Amendment
In the case of prayers at public, governmental gatherings, I believe religion really has no place.
By Pamela K. Taylor | August 6, 2007; 8:50 AM ET | Comments (125)
In UK, Hindus Don't Have a Prayer
It is a very good thing if a Hindu chaplain opens the senate proceedings with prayer. We are just beginning to try to move away from the only prayers (every day, before proceedings start) in the House of the Lords...
By Julia Neuberger | August 6, 2007; 7:45 AM ET | Comments (20)
