Is medicine a spiritual practice?

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Spirituality and medicine have a long history in common . For much of that history for many persons and cultures today , the rupture between medicine and spirituality that characterizes Western medicine at the brink of the 21st century is a distinct anomaly . Spirituality is defined by a person's relationship with the transcendent . Only persons are capable of such relationships . The transcendent can be experienced in and through the practice of medicine , which essentially involves personal relationships with patients and always raises transcendent questions for patients and practitioners . Physicians who wish to deepen their own spiritual lives can begin to do so by intensifying their personal commitments to their own spiritual beliefs and practices , and by beginning to talk with each other about spiritual issues that arise in the practice of medicine . This will better prepare them to meet the spiritual needs of their patients .

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