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Hi, I wonder if anyone has experienced losing their faith in residency (or before or after), and can describe what that was like or what experiences prompted it.
Alternatively, I wonder if anyone has come to a new or stronger spirituality through training or patient care. All thoughts welcome.
In general, CC is not really intended for this type of question/discussion. However, I can see that one might not wish to have the discussion on a public forum of SDN and so I'll post it and see what happens. This should not be the routine question for CC though.
Certainly some physicians may find that their view of religion is altered by their medical experiences. I think one common thing is to have a different view of life and death than we may have from our religious training. Specifically, we may find that "death" as we think of it as an absolute event which occurs at one exact moment is not so straight-forward. Similarly a dichotomous view of gender is flawed and this can affect how we perceive our religious ideas.
On the whole however, I expect that most physicians carry with them the religious training and belief set with which they were raised and these survive medical training fairly well.
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