Question

Describe your opinion about the relationship between religion, health, and health care.

Explain how you would approach a situation with a patient whose religious beliefs interfere with or prevent a prescribed medical treatment.

Provide your opinion on asking about a person’s religious background as part of the patient history. Should it be required, optional, or never done? Explain your response, providing details and examples to support it.

Answer 1

I guess or rather I believe that there is no relationship between health and religion. Doctor be it of any religion should have enough skills to treat any patient. And even the patients should not be stereotyped against any doctors. They should believe in science first and then things like caste, creed or religion. I would tell the same to the patient who is stereotyped against all these, to change the core or the basic thinking foundation.

There is no need to ask person's background, it is wrong to take down any information which is not use of medicine. Even these days asking about gender is not so accepted, it is kept optional in any form. It should never be done as per my opinion.

Our family doctor is very intelligent. He has many patients,he has got a small clinic and people from all the caste turn to him for the treatment. His clinic is going really well since ages.