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Scenario

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.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

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

Your guide for this
Dipa
Dipa works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Medical ethics across traditions?”

Peri

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