Doctor, will you pray for me? : medicine, chaplains, and healing the whole person /
Psychiatrist and bioethicist Robert Klitzman explores how patients and families struggle to make sense of serious disease and threats of death and other medical crises, seeking hope, purpose and larger connections beyond themselves.
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2024]
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Table of Contents:
- "Disappearing into clouds of smoke" : Confronting threats to life
- Asking 'Why me?' and second-guessing God
- "Doctor, do you believe in God?" : Physicians facing spiritual and religious questions
- Amazing graces : How chaplains enter the room
- "Why has God let me down?" : Helping religious patients
- "I just look at sunsets and stars" : Aiding patients who are spiritual but not religious
- "The thousand kinds of atheism" : Assisting atheist, agnostic and uncertain patients
- "The most important moment in our lives" : Resetting priorities and further appreciating the present
- "I pray to the God I don't believe in" : Creating prayers
- "The voice of the voiceless" : Aiding vulnerable patients
- "We sang my son into Heaven" : Re-envisioning "heaven" and grief
- "When should we pull the plug?" : Aiding end-of-life decisions
- "Mommy, when I die..." : Helping parents and children
- How close or distant to be: Balancing and ending relationships with patients
- Seeing patients with fresh eyes
- "Which ditch do you want to die in?" : Chaplains vs. doctors
- When doctors cry : Assisting staff with stress
- "Doctor, will you pray for me?" : Improving doctors
- "More than just smiling and saying Jesus" : Improving chaplains
- Finding meaning and hope in a rapidly changing world.