Fri 24 Jun 2005
From The University of Chicago Hospitals Website:
“The first study of physician religious beliefs has found that 76 percent of doctors believe in God and 59 percent believe in some sort of afterlife. The survey, performed by researchers at the University of Chicago and published (early online) in the July 2005 issue of the Journal of General Internal Medicine, found that 90 percent of doctors in the United States attend religious services at least occasionally, compared to 81 percent of all adults. Fifty-five percent of doctors say their religious beliefs influence how they practice medicine.”
So doctors are people, too. It is interesting that most people agree that doctors are scientists, yet scientists are almost universally labeled as “non-religious.” I was once corrected after referring to myself as a scientist on a popular web-community website. I was told that as a Christian, I could be “scientific” but not a “scientist.”
Read more – outside link.