However, if they believe patients’ religiously informed decisions will cause them to suffer harm, physicians make efforts to persuade patients to follow medical recommendations.Ĭonclusions When religiously related conflict arises, physicians appear to intuitively navigate a tension between respecting patients’ autonomy by remaining open-minded and flexible and seeking patients’ good by persuading them to follow medical recommendations. Results Conflict introduced by religion is common and occurs in 3 types of settings: (1) those in which religious doctrines directly conflict with medical recommendations, (2) those that involve an area in which there is extensive controversy within the broader society, and (3) settings of relative medical uncertainty in which patients “choose faith over medicine.” In response to such conflict, physicians first seek to accommodate patients’ ideas by remaining open-minded and flexible in their approach. Interviews were transcribed, coded, and analyzed for emergent themes through an iterative process of textual analysis informed by the principle of constant comparison. Methods One-to-one, in-depth, semistructured interviews with 21 physicians from a range of religious affiliations, specialties, and practice settings. We explored the ways in which physicians interpret and respond to conflict between medical recommendations and patients’ religious commitments. Despite a lively debate about how physicians should respond to patients’ religious concerns, little is known about how physicians actually respond. Shared Decision Making and Communicationīackground Patients at times disagree with medical recommendations for religious reasons.
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