Doctor, Will You Pray for Me?
Medicine, Chaplains, and Healing the Whole Person
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 23 December 2024
- ISBN 9780197750841
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages324 pages
- Size 224x152x35 mm
- Weight 590 g
- Language English 573
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Short description:
Psychiatrist and bioethicist Robert Klitzman here explores the need for spiritual guidance among patients and their families who are experiencing illness. They often struggle to make sense of their situation, and as they confront their mortality they will try to seek hope, purpose, and larger connections beyond the world of medicine. While physicians are frequently uncomfortable with these issues, often under sung hospital chaplains can and do fill this void. Klitzman uses interviews with patients, families, and chaplains to bring their stories to life; and more broadly he explores the ways in which hospitals and the health care system might address this neglect of a vital human need in times of crisis.
MoreLong description:
The modern world faces religious, spiritual and existential quandaries, as new technologies redefine the beginnings and ends of life. Excruciating choices arise about when to turn off the machines - whether and when we should "play God." The COVID-19 pandemic made these dilemmas ever more acute. Increasingly, however, public discourse on religion and spirituality is polarized, with evangelicals on one side and vehement atheists on the other.
Psychiatrist and bioethicist Robert Klitzman explores how patients and families struggle to make sense of serious disease and threats of death and other medical crises, seeking hope, purpose and larger connections beyond themselves. Physicians and other clinical staff are frequently uncomfortable with these issues, and chaplains have been filling the void, developing valuable approaches and insights. Most Americans will die in hospitals or nursing homes, and face existential and spiritual quandaries. Many of their prior religious and spiritual beliefs will fall short, and chaplains will often be the ones to assist, partly by reframing narratives and understandings of illness and spirituality. Yet people often know little, if anything, about these professionals. Klitzman presents stories about the spiritual lives of patients and explores the role of chaplains - who they are, what they do and the challenges they face.
Drawing on in-depth interviews and the author's personal experiences, Doctor, Will You Pray for Me? provides vital information that can assist in medical care decisions. Robert Klitzman argues that a better understanding of the relationship between these realms will enable more holistic and humane treatment of patients.
“In this insightful, thought-provoking book, Klitzman illuminates how patients find and maintain hope when facing serious ailments. As a physician, researcher and writer, he masterfully weaves together gripping stories of doctors, patients and chaplains, and recent research demonstrating how hope and spirituality positively affect human health. This remarkable book shows how physicians need not only to use cutting-edge medical science, but to be equally aware of the human spirit.” -Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize Winner and author of Song of the Cell
Table of Contents:
Part I: In the foxhole: Patients facing crises
Chapter 1: “Disappearing into clouds of smoke”: Confronting threats to life
Chapter 2: Asking 'Why me?' and second-guessing God
Chapter 3: “Doctor, do you believe in God?”: Physicians facing spiritual and religious questions
Chapter 4: Amazing graces: How chaplains enter the room
Part II: “Coming in with the religion they have”: Aiding patients with particular beliefs
Chapter 5: “Why has God let me down?”: Helping religious patients
Chapter 6: “I just look at sunsets and stars”: Aiding patients who are spiritual but not religious
Chapter 7: “The thousand kinds of atheism”: Assisting atheist, agnostic and uncertain patients
Part III: “Meeting patients wherever they are”: Helping patients regardless of their beliefs
Chapter 8: “The most important moment in our lives”: Resetting priorities and further appreciating the present
Chapter 9: “I pray to the God I don't believe in”: Creating prayers
Chapter 10 The voice of the voiceless”: Aiding vulnerable patients
Part IV: Approaching the end
Chapter 11: “We sang my son into Heaven”: Re-envisioning “heaven” and grief
Chapter 12: “When should we pull the plug?”: Aiding end-of-life decisions
Chapter 13: “Mommy, when I die…”: Helping parents and children
Chapter 14: How close or distant to be: Balancing and ending relationships with patients
Part V: Confronting tensions with staff
Chapter 15: Seeing patients with fresh eyes
Chapter 16: “Which ditch do you want to die in?”: Chaplains vs. doctors
Chapter 17: When doctors cry: Assisting staff with stress
Part VI: God 2.0: Moving into the future
Chapter 18: “Doctor, will you pray for me?”: Improving doctors
Chapter 19: “More than just smiling and saying Jesus”: Improving chaplains
Chapter 20: Finding meaning and hope in a rapidly changing world
Appendix:
Appendix A: List of Chaplains
Appendix B: Methods
References
Acknowledgements
