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How religious beliefs about suffering affect medical decisions

My religious community is pressuring me not to get the surgery I need because they believe suffering is part of God's plan and I'm starting to question everything I was taught.

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The collision between faith and medicine forces a reckoning with whether spiritual beliefs should govern physical reality.

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