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Spirituality and strength are cited by experts as being responsible for 29% increase in the odds of success in medical treatments
House event Saber GLOBE discussed the union of science and religion for the sake of healing the patients
The surgeon Ricardo Lopes da Cruz participates in discussion with journalist Ana Lucia Azevedo, Claudio cardiologist Bishop Domenico and Antonio Dias Duarte Paula Giolito / O Globo
RIO - Ten years in captivity since adolescence were not enough to settle the strength of mind of Amanda Berry, the Cleveland American who declared for the first time this week the recipe for their resistance: "I will not let the situation define who I I am. I'll set up the situation. " It is this mental strength, coupled with faith - be it what religion is - gives, up front, 29% more chances of success in any medical treatment, according to research by psychologist Harold Koenig, an expert on the effects of religion on medicine and inspiration for doctors who discussed the topic in this month's issue of THE GLOBE Dating Health and Welfare.
Religiosity among the medical disciplines
The cycle of lectures and discussions held at Casa do Saber GLOBE, the Lagoon, was attended by the head and neck surgeon Ricardo Lopes da Cruz, the National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics (Into) and Auxiliary Bishop of Rio de Janeiro, Don Antonio Duarte, theologian and physician graduated at USP. Coordinated Cardiologist Claudio Domenico, the event was mediated by the publisher of Health GLOBE, journalist Ana Lucia Azevedo.
- It is this force (Amanda) that serves us when we are facing a serious illness, sometimes incurable - Domenico said.
The cardiologist started the lecture with a taunt. He mentioned Marcia Angell, former editor of the "New England Journal of Medicine" which stated in 1985 that "our belief in disease as a direct reflection of a mental state is largely a folklore." At the time she was the chief of the medical journal among the most prestigious in the world, but the time tried to contradict her. Today, over 70% of U.S. medical schools have incorporated at least one course involving religiosity and health. And since there is a tendency that the wheelchair is mandatory in American medical schools.
- Clinicians must be trained to reap a spiritual history. Just as we ask "do you smoke, do exercises?", We must also ask "do you practice any religion? If you get sick, I would have some spiritual comfort? "We can not ignore the spiritual needs. Extend care to those with serious illnesses for attention pscicossocial, existential and spiritual suffering is against the consensus of the American College of Physicians - Domenico adds, mentioning the larger American society of medical specialties.
The Bishop Antonio explained to the audience that, unlike the signs that contemporary Western culture tries to pass, faith and science are not antagonistic concepts.
- Faith is the substance of what is still expected. Demonstration of realities not seen - said the auxiliary bishop, paraphrasing St. Paul. - Modern thought, secular understands faith as a subjective attitude and not objective, as people enter a world of darkness, where the light is science - Auxiliary Bishop explains. - The medical advances to be increasingly powerful machines, but you can not live with uncertainty. And Paul speaks of certainty. Faith is not intellectual darkness.
On the eve of World Youth Day, Archbishop Antonio highlights that much better the doctor the better the patient's full understanding. A good spiritual formation, prior to proper medical education is the way, adds the theologian.
- If the doctor is not a specialist in the spirit, because it is inhuman, it lost its own dimension of the human being. To understand the person in its full dimension, must have a background of spiritualization and then enrich themselves with medical experience.
The head and neck surgeon Ricardo Lopes da Cruz has the routine care of patients with trauma and tumors on the face, body part most associated visual identity. Into one of the members in the program Humaniza SUS, the Ministry of Health, Cruz said about the influence of faith in your work experience:
- We know that there are people who, during the face diseases evolve nicely. Then say: he could only have evolved so it's high spirits. As the opposite occurs when, during treatment, there is the unexpected death of one who is pessimistic. The astral spirit.
In light of medicine, since 1988 the spirit overcame the skeptics and won official status as part of human well-being, when the World Health Organization definition of health has changed. No longer just the fact of not having disease for the wellbeing biological, psychological, sociological, and - wait for it - spiritual.
Strength of Spirit helps in recovery
Cruz continued the explanation with the statement that there is no high or low mood, but coping ability, which can be interpreted as the strength of the spirit. Even so, according to the surgeon, a survey among physicians by Humaniza SUS measured that 56% of physicians surveyed believe that religion and spirituality could have much influence on health, but only 6% would like to introduce the method in routine work .
Mark Knibel, intensivist, Hospital São Lucas, River, was in the audience and was invited to try to explain why so much resistance among colleagues in discussing spirituality:
- Young doctors today have immense difficulty in talking with the patient, in harvesting the patient's disease history, let alone their spiritual history - believes and blames medical training: - The medical university is bankrupt, not only teaches religion as there also teaches philosophy, communication, nothing.
Next event:
Date & Time: Day August 21, Wednesday, at 17h.
Address: Casa do Saber GLOBE at Avenida Pessoa 1164 in Lagoa.
How to enter: By phone 2227-2237, from 11h to 20h. Places are limited.
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