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[FaninAma]

Just my experience...most docs are agnostic diest, etc. because of the fact that they are trained/taught/believe that science is the end all be all...the is no faith (to a certain extent). If it cannot be proven...it doesn't exist.

Physicians are generally more religious than the general population:
http://www.uchospitals.edu/news/2005...religious.html

The ones that I know who aren't religious generally tend to be specialists in fields where they don't develop much of a patient-physician relationship(i.e anesthesiology, radiology). If you aren't religious you generally have a very hard time meeting the spiritual needs of your patients. More and more the medical field is recognizing how important a patient's spiritual health is to their overall well being.

[BoulderSooner79]

Just my experience...most docs are agnostic diest, etc. because of the fact that they are trained/taught/believe that science is the end all be all...the is no faith (to a certain extent). If it cannot be proven...it doesn't exist.

I know lots of folks trained in science and technology (including myself) that don't view things this way. Lots of things can't be proven now, but eventually will be. That's not faith, just extrapolation from history. Some things may never be figured out, but it shouldn't be because we don't try. I'm agnostic because I think it doesn't matter what I believe and I'm totally open to new findings. I don't think me having faith will impact my afterlife if there is one as that doesn't seem rational. That seems like humans projecting their own frailty onto a much more powerful and sophisticated presence - if it exists.

[Serenity Now]

Physicians are generally more religious than the general population:
http://www.uchospitals.edu/news/2005...religious.html

The ones that I know who aren't religious generally tend to be specialists in fields where they don't develop much of a patient-physician relationship(i.e anesthesiology, radiology). If you aren't religious you generally have a very hard time meeting the spiritual needs of your patients. More and more the medical field is recognizing how important a patient's spiritual health is to their overall well being.

My generalized experience is with family practice docs. A few have a mystical (i.e., The Force) concept. I'd say a higher portion of the ones I come across would label as agnostic than our general population. Maybe eastern OK is not the best place to use the general population as a "base".

[FaninAma]

My generalized experience is with family practice docs. A few have a mystical (i.e., The Force) concept. I'd say a higher portion of the ones I come across would label as agnostic than our general population. Maybe eastern OK is not the best place to use the general population as a "base".

Maybe they are Hindu. I have noticed that younger physicians tend to be less religious. I was when I was younger but I have come to believe that there is more to being human than the time you are physically present on this earth.