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To: American Spirit who wrote (63672)	6/23/2005 12:27:36 PM
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76% of doctors say they believe in God (and the left-wing is stunned! LOL) 59% believe in an afterlife of some kind CHICAGO — A survey examining religion in medicine found that most U.S. doctors believe in God and an afterlife — a surprising degree of spirituality in a science-based field, researchers say. In the survey of 1,044 doctors nationwide, 76 percent said they believe in God, 59 percent said they believe in some sort of afterlife, and 55 percent said their religious beliefs influence how they practice medicine. “We were surprised to find that physicians were as religious as they apparently are,” said Farr Curlin, a researcher at the University of Chicago’s MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics. “There’s certainly a deep-seated cultural idea that science and religion are at odds,” and previous studies have suggested that fewer than half of all scientists believe in God, Curlin said Wednesday. A previous survey showed that about 83 percent of the general population believes in God. Although medicine is science-based, doctors differ from scientists who work primarily in a laboratory setting, and doctors’ direct contact with patients in life-and-death situations may explain the differing views, Curlin said. The study is based on responses to questionnaires mailed in 2003. It is to appear in a coming issue of the Journal of General Internal Medicine and was released online to subscribers earlier this month. kansascity.com