Bridging with the sacred: reflections of an MD chaplain.
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Life has a curious way of growing us beyond what we can imagine. After 19 years as an emergency physician, I never could have guessed I would become a chaplain. In fact, there were times during those years when I was incapable of comforting a family after giving them the news that a family member had died. I would be so overcome with emotion after 30e60 seconds of the family’s grief, I would say, ‘‘I’m so sorry for your loss. I’ll ask the nurse to come in and be with you.’’ Then, I would get out of the room as quickly as possible. It is ironic. Inmy new career as a chaplain, for the past dozen years, I am the one called to bring comfort. I am the one to provide solace when a baby is stillborn, guidance to a husband struggling with whether to continue respiratory support for his beloved wife, or prayer for the young woman desperately awaiting a lung transplant. I also teach a required class, ‘‘Spirituality andMeaning inMedicine,’’ and an elective, the ‘‘Healer’s Art’’ (developed by Rachel Naomi Remen, MD) to medical students at Stanford. In these classes, students and physicians share personal stories that reveal what I call ‘‘the landscape of human spiritual experience.’’ They speak of unexpected moments of awe in nature or in the operating room,
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of pain and symptom management
دوره 42 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2011