Spiritualism and medicine

Abstract

According to the WHO, for maintaining good health, spiritualism is one dimension. Over the decades, Doctors are becoming less and less spiritual. Thus there is a need to inculcate spiritualism in medical professionals. Spiritualism in my experience is the connection between the soul and the God. For personal development, spiritualism plays an important role. A spiritual doctor is likely to be more ethical as compared to a non spiritual doctor. Over the last few decades, the medical community is blamed time and again for becoming commercialized and doing unethical practice. Patients and doctors' relation is becoming more and more strain leading to dissatisfaction and lack of mutual respect. More importantly, large number of litigations is also reported for above reasons. In medical curriculum, not much humanity or ethics are taught. Thus, medical profession has become more and more materialistic. Therefore, it is imperative that doctors should have a spiritual mind. This can be done either by meditation (yoga, pranayam (breathing exercise). Hence I feel to deliver right treatment without motive; it can only be possible with development of spiritualism in health care professionals. Conclusion: I feel it is our moral responsibility to inculcate yoga which only can be done by meditation, yoga and concentration classes. By doing so, it will be possible to improve health care delivery system and doctor and patient relation will also improve.