I hope that this Forum provides a starting point on this battleground and an approach for attending to the medical staff, aligning physicians on the institutional mission and fostering a spiritually nourishing environment. I shall try to write to that physician in the hospital who will lead the work; I will call that person a physician champion. However, I also want to write for hospital administrators, nursing staff, hospital chaplains, and health policy planners. I shall try to keep the concepts consistent with Christian theology. Nevertheless, I want to honor people from all faith traditions. As I worked for ten years with physicians at St. Vincent Hospital in Indianapolis, I tested these concepts repeatedly. They are generally well received. Finally, these ideas are not doctrine, a cookbook or the only possibility. It is simply one place to start. I know that there are many other directions to take and I hope that readers will share those with an interested and concerned community.
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