Health and Religion

Here’s an interesting little conundrum: how do you interpret the fact that some doctors are demanding that they should be allowed to ask patients if they would like them to say a prayer for them? Recently the NHS advised that medical staff should not ask patients about such matters, and a nurse in Somerset was suspended after offering to pray for a patient.That would seem like a bit of an argument for secularisation. But the response by some doctors opens the debate up once more.

One for all of you to mull over.