Building mutual trust and respect within the chaplain/physician relationship.
Trust and respect between physician and chaplain is built over a period of time, through deliberate effort. It is something that may be present from the start, but will be tested in conflict. On the physician's side a respect for religion in medicine must be developed. On the chaplain's side there must be a ministry to the physician. A complementarity between religion and medicine in which both spiritual and physical needs are met, fosters mutual trust and respect which enable doctor and chaplain to have their own needs met when faced with their own loneliness, sense of failure, ethical dilemmas, and the loss of income and/or authority in medicine.
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