(April 17, 2017 at 5:13 pm)Brian37 Wrote:(April 17, 2017 at 5:02 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: So long as it doesn't prevent her from doing her job professionally, I don't actually care what she believes.
Yes, it can be a scary thought that highly trained professionals can believe in such rubbish, but so long as they don't allow those beliefs to affect their profession and their patients, it doesn't bother me.
I'm quite surprised how many of the doctors, and particularly the nurses around me are very religious. I've been invited to prayer meetings on several occasions and have turned them down.
I think I told this story long time ago here. My mom was sent to a vascular heart surgeon and in the examination room he had that stupid Jesus print on his wall where Jesus was standing behind a doctor guiding his hands. And I was screaming in my head only, "I dont want you thinking about anything but my mom if you cut her open".
I think even the religious ones for the most part they do have that concentration ability even if they do stupid shit like pray before or after.
I do like what the Sully , the pilot said when he landed the Jet on the Hudson when the reporter asked him if he said a prayer, Sully's response, "I didn't have time". And because he concentrated all those people survived.
Yeah, I hate that pic, too.
If I could get away with it I'd put the poster on my wall of the surgeon saying, "If someone says, 'thank god', I'm putting the tumour back in."
One of the most intelligent people I knew in my early career was a devout Muslim. One thing he always said was, "At work profession comes first, faith second. I have plenty of time to be a Muslim in my own time."
He prayed in his office quietly and kept it to himself.
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:
"You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"