The Rebirth of the Clinic Quotes

“To heal a person, one must first be a person. We are all spiritual beings. Health care is a spiritual discipline.
Notes”
― Daniel P. Sulmasy, The Rebirth of the Clinic: An Introduction to Spirituality in Health Care

“Scientific reductionism has threatened the spiritual aspects of medical practice from within, by denying the existence of the transcendent. The industrialization of health care now threatens the spiritual aspects of medical practice from without, denying the importance of the spiritual.
Yet”
― Daniel P. Sulmasy, The Rebirth of the Clinic: An Introduction to Spirituality in Health Care

“Working in a system in which financial incentives have been reconfigured to make physician and patient economic rivals, it is hard for either patients or physicians to feel that their value constitutes true dignity-the value that has no price and belongs only to persons.' This is the value of those created in the image and likeness of God.
Working”
― Daniel P. Sulmasy, The Rebirth of the Clinic: An Introduction to Spirituality in Health Care

“Money can't buy spirituality-and money can't make it go away.
Cultivating”
― Daniel P. Sulmasy, The Rebirth of the Clinic: An Introduction to Spirituality in Health Care

“Illness is a spiritual event. Illness grasps persons by the soul as well as by the body and disturbs both. Illness ineluctably raises troubling questions of a transcendent nature-questions about meaning, value, and relationship. These questions are spiritual. How health care professionals answer these questions for themselves will affect the way they help their patients struggle with these questions.
We”
― Daniel P. Sulmasy, The Rebirth of the Clinic: An Introduction to Spirituality in Health Care