I go to my minister to pray

When I saw the article title “Religion in primary care. Let’s talk about it” in the March 2012 issue,¹ my secular mind started to review all the events, disasters, and atrocities that human history owes to bringing religion to all the aspects of our lives. Please, not here, not in medicine. You have the churches and mosques, synagogues and temples, politics and governments. We came a long way from religious healers to medical doctors, from astrology to astronomy, from alchemy to chemistry, millennia and centuries long. It would be a disastrous regress for us to give our precious time to going on our knees, taking our patients’ hands, and praying for their recovery instead of using critical thinking, applying our medical knowledge, and spending time on what we really should be concerned about.

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