This study, published in this month’s Archives of Internal Medicine, questioned both family physicians and internists about their spiritual behaviors with patients. Around 475 doctors responded to the survey.
On my way to work each day I pass a bus shelter ad that reads, "Literacy is a Right." Well, I'd take that further and declare that today scientific literacy is a basic human right. As with the inability to read, the inability to understand science and scientific methodology is nothing less than a disability.
Lorraine Candy, the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan, which has a monthly circulation of 460,000, says that the appointment of a spirituality editor was a necessary response to the growing number of young women searching for "something deeper".
