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Do religious physicians disproportionately care for the underserved?

Farr A Curlin1, Lydia S Dugdale, John D Lantos

  • 1Department of Medicine, Section of General Internal Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill 60637, USA. fcurlin@uchicago.edu

Annals of Family Medicine
|August 1, 2007
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Physicians

Area of Science:

  • Medical Sociology
  • Bioethics
  • Public Health

Background:

  • Religious tenets often emphasize caring for the poor and marginalized.
  • Limited research exists on the association between physicians' religiosity and practice among underserved populations.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if physicians' religious characteristics and sense of calling correlate with serving underserved patient populations.
  • To explore the relationship between spirituality, religious beliefs, and medical practice in diverse communities.

Main Methods:

  • Cross-sectional survey conducted via mail.
  • Stratified random sample of 2,000 practicing US physicians across all specialties.
  • Response rate achieved was 63%.

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Main Results:

  • 26% of physicians reported serving underserved populations.
  • High spirituality, strong influence of religious beliefs on practice, and upbringing emphasizing service to the poor were associated with serving the underserved.
  • General religiosity (intrinsic religiosity, service attendance) correlated with perceiving medicine as a calling, but not with serving the underserved.

Conclusions:

  • Physicians with higher general religiosity do not appear to disproportionately serve underserved populations.
  • Spirituality and specific religious influences on practice are more predictive of serving the underserved than general religiousness.