Building Trust: Clergy and the Call to Eliminate Religious Exemptions

Why we should eliminate personal belief exemptions to vaccine mandates.

We argue that personal belief exemptions to the mandate for childhood immunizations should not be allowed. Parents who choose not to immunize their children put both their own children and other children at risk. Other children are at risk because unimmunized children go to school or day care when they are contagious but asymptomatic, exposing many more children to potentially dangerous infecti...

Building Trust Between Patients and Physicians

Repairing and enhancing patient wellbeing are considered the most significant goals in the health sector. It is observed that a trustful relationship between physicians and other medical team members on one side and the patients and their families on the other side is really important to achieve the fundamental purposes in the “Art of Medicine”....

Building Trust Between Patients and Physicians

Repairing and enhancing patient wellbeing are considered the most significant goals in the health sector. It is observed that a trustful relationship between physicians and other medical team members on one side and the patients and their families on the other side is really important to achieve the fundamental purposes in the “Art of Medicine”....

U.S. Clergy Religious Values and Relationships to End-of-Life Discussions and Care.

CONTEXT Although clergy interact with approximately half of U.S. patients facing end-of-life medical decisions, little is known about clergy-congregant interactions or clergy influence on end-of-life decisions. OBJECTIVE The objective was to conduct a nationally representative survey of clergy beliefs and practices. METHODS A mailed survey to a nationally representative sample of clergy com...

Religious exemptions to childhood immunization statutes: reaching for a more optimal balance between religious freedom and public health.