'My pain is God's will'.
Two colleagues, a clinical nurse specialist and a chaplain, explain how they've dealt with patients who feel obligated to suffer for religious reasons.
Kumasaka
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Queen's Medical Center, Honolulu, USA.
Miles
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000701:Analgesics, Opioid / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D002835:Christianity; D005260:Female; D005610:Freedom; D006254:Hawaii; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000503:physiopathology; D008297:Male; D009020:Morphine / Q000627:therapeutic use; D009720:Nurse Clinicians / Q000523:psychology; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D010146:Pain / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology*; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000451:nursing / Q000503:physiopathology; D010327:Pastoral Care / Q000379:methods; D010348:Patient Care Team; D012068:Religion and Medicine; D016312:Treatment Refusal
D000701:Analgesics, Opioid; D009020:Morphine