What we learn as we walk with people in distress.
By: Doug Koop
A big part of my job as a spiritual health practitioner is to stay attuned to the suffering.
Every day I encounter patients and family members enduring multiple types of personal distress – physical, emotional, spiritual. People who require hospital care almost inevitably find themselves struggling to come to terms with any of a variety of uncomfortable realities.
In a word, they suffer.
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