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Article: Vast majority of physicians satisfied with hospital chaplain services.(Survey)
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- November 15, 2009
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A national survey of physicians' experience with hospital chaplains found that the vast majority of doctors were satisfied with the spiritual services provided. Physicians in the Northeast and those with a dim view of religion's effects on patients, however, were less likely to be pleased.
The results of the survey - the largest, most representative survey of physicians' attitudes about religion and spirituality conducted to date - are published in a research letter in the October 26 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine. George Fitchett, PhD, a chaplain at Rush University Medical Center, is the study's lead author.
"Religion and spirituality are ...