Spiritual Therapy in Coping with Cancer as a Complementary Medical Preventive Practice

There are many of methods of treating cancer. However, the concept of curing the cancer is beyond our current knowledge. Some patients who have the cancer may seek an alternative manner of curing their disease. Alternative medicines, such as spiritual and complementary therapy, are able to cure the cancer and, at the least, are safe. Research on the importance of spirituality in cancer care has mainly been performed in geographically heterogeneous populations. The results are limited to these specific religious-cultural contexts and enlightened by contributions from ethnicity and religion. This article focused on the religiousness and spiritual support of cancer patients from diverse and heterogeneous groups around the globe. An electronic search of peer-reviewed articles was systematically performed to obtain the relevant literature with the CINAHL, PsycINFO, and PubMed databases. The keywords included religion, cancer, illness, psychotherapy, and spiritual and alternative treatment/therapies. The inclusion criteria for the reviews were that the documents were original quantitative research and published in English. Articles that were not directly relevant to the present objective were excluded. The present outcome of these review resources suggest that it may be helpful for clinicians to address spirituality, particularly with regard to prevention, healing, and survival of cancer patients. This article indicates that it may be useful for clinical oncologists to be informed of the prevalence of the use of spiritual medicine in their specialized field. In addition, patients should routinely be asked about the use of spiritual medicine as part of every cancer patient' evaluation.

study of medical errors

Any time Throughout the human story, when man has been exposed to boredom and health problems , he has used the expertise of those in the life of medicine and treatment. The holy Prophet [PBUH] has been narrated as saying, "The experts are healers of people, and in case the healers are themselves ill, who will treat the patients? From the Holy narration by the Holy Prophet [PBUH], we learn that the important figures in the society, especially the physicians, have to be always in good health both physically and morally. The medical team being known as outstanding characters, are highly valuable in the society. In the past they were known as 'healers', a title which is used to call the God showing that Islam pays a special attention to the physicians. It is so incredible to utilize this value in guiding the people, especially the patients in the best way possible. . It has to be noted that those with the highest quality features, characters, and self-efficient personalities shall be better benefited. . The health of the healers is therefore, an undeniable necessity. Studies have revealed that even a 24-hour monthly work shift may triple the occurrence of medical errors. As the most serious part of the present study is the definition of the term "Fault" in medicine, it becomes mandatory to define it morphologically and terminologically to see what it really refers