Patient care

Questions to ask patients in the hospital:

• What are ways you have of dealing with this? 
• What are ways you cope with this illness?

How does a physician respond when a patient asks a provider to pray with them?

If a physician is uncomfortable with that, "I respect your need to share your beliefs, how about if I ask a chaplain to pray with you. "

What if a provider wants to pray aloud for a patient?

Never try to prosletize or abuse the power imbalance in the patient-doctor relationship.