HEALING, HEALTH CARE, AND SPIRITUALITY

Abstract

Like Sulmasy, MacKinlay is a health care professional (RN), professor (at the School of Theology, Charles Sturt University), program director (Centre for Ageing and Pastoral Studies) and a committed person of faith (an ordained priest in the Anglican Church of Australia). Sulmasy's harsh descriptions of physicians' insecurity, resentment, and readiness to blame others (patients, insurance companies, and corporations controlling medical care) may also apply to university faculty with stagnating salaries and increasing class sizes, researchers facing cut-backs in grant funding, social workers expected to do the work of three persons, and activities directors overloaded with paperwork and regulations.