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Health and Religion

Jim Riley

29th June 2009

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Here’s an interesting little conundrum: how do you interpret the fact that some doctors are demanding that they should be allowed to ask patients if they would like them to say a prayer for them? Recently the NHS advised that medical staff should not ask patients about such matters, and a nurse in Somerset was suspended after offering to pray for a patient.That would seem like a bit of an argument for secularisation. But the response by some doctors opens the debate up once more.

One for all of you to mull over.

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Jim Riley

Jim co-founded tutor2u alongside his twin brother Geoff! Jim is a well-known Business writer and presenter as well as being one of the UK's leading educational technology entrepreneurs.

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