(RNS) — “My religion is watching CNN,” a feisty elderly woman with cancer recently told a hospital chaplain who had knocked on the patient’s door to introduce himself. The patient, in a thin blue ...
Hospital chaplains often meet people who are at the lowest points in their lives, when it's not just the body that requires healing. But one chaplain gets patients to talk about their tattoos as a way ...
About a year into his job as an interfaith chaplain at Tampa General Hospital in Tampa, Fla., J.S. Park began to have what he calls "really awful death anxiety." "I saw all the ways people could be ...
DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Hospitals are playing a key role in the treatment of COVID-19 patients. But it's not just the medical care by doctors and nurses that is so essential these days; the ...
Modern medicine, replete with pulsating machines that monitor the human life form, can do remarkable things in the hospital setting. It can save the severely ill or injured, or postpone the arrival of ...