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How Should Physicians Respond to Patient Requests for Religious Concordance?
Jacob A Blythe, Farr A Curlin1
1The Josiah C. Trent Professor of Medical Humanities and co-director of the Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina; and an active palliative medicine physician and holds appointments in both the Duke University School of Medicine and the Duke Divinity School.
AMA Journal of Ethics
|June 18, 2019
Summary
Physicians should consider patient-physician religious concordance when requested. Greater concordance, like a shared language, can help achieve medical goals in specific situations.
Area of Science:
- Medical Ethics
- Sociology of Medicine
Background:
- The role of patient-physician concordance in medical practice is debated.
- Medical practice is sometimes viewed as solely bureaucratic or technological, overlooking relational aspects.
Purpose of the Study:
- To explore the circumstances and methods for facilitating patient-physician religious concordance.
- To challenge the narrow view of medicine as purely bureaucratic and technological.
Main Methods:
- Conceptual analysis using the metaphor of shared language.
- Argumentation on the degree of concordance and its impact on medical goals.
Main Results:
- Patient-physician concordance is a matter of degree, not an absolute.
- Facilitating religious concordance can be beneficial under certain circumstances.
Conclusions:
- Religious concordance between patients and physicians can be a valuable aspect of care.
- A shared language metaphor highlights how greater concordance can serve medical objectives.
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