A Question of Faith
Raghavan discusses a very personal experience from his own life that illustrates why hospital policies that are based in religion rather than science can be unhealthy and unsafe. In his case, a dangerous complication of pregnancy threatened the life of his wife and unborn twins, but hospital policy...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association 2007-04, Vol.297 (13), p.1412-1412 |
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| Sprache: | eng |
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| Zusammenfassung: | Raghavan discusses a very personal experience from his own life that illustrates why hospital policies that are based in religion rather than science can be unhealthy and unsafe. In his case, a dangerous complication of pregnancy threatened the life of his wife and unborn twins, but hospital policy forbade the procedure that would save his wife, so he was forced to have his wife transferred to another facility. |
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| ISSN: | 0098-7484 1538-3598 |
| DOI: | 10.1001/jama.297.13.1412 |