June 30, 2000
Doctors, Don't Try to Heal Thy Patients With Religion, a Researcher Urges
Take two sermons and call me in the morning.
That's something Richard P. Sloan hopes never to hear from a physician. Alarmed at an increasing infusion of religion into the practice of medicine, Mr. Sloan, an associate professor of psychiatry at Columbia University's College of Physicians & Surgeons, wrote an article in last week's issue of The New England Journal of Medicine in an effort to discourage it. He and his coauthors, who include Muslim, Greek
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