Most U.S. Doctors Believe in God

Survey: Most U.S. Doctors Believe in God - Yahoo! News: "Survey: Most U.S. Doctors Believe in God

By LINDSEY TANNER, AP Medical Writer Wed Jun 22, 9:03 PM ET

CHICAGO - A survey examining religion in medicine found that most U.S. doctors believe in God and an afterlife — a surprising degree of spirituality in a science-based field, researchers say.

In the survey of 1,044 doctors nationwide, 76 percent said they believe in God, 59 percent said they believe in some sort of afterlife, and 55 percent said their religious beliefs influence how they practice medicine.

Belief in "a supreme being ... is vitally important to physicians' ability to take care of patients, particularly the end-of-life issues that we deal with so often," said Hill, a family physician from Tupelo, Miss.

Religions among physicians are more varied than among the general population, the survey found. While more than 80 percent of the U.S. population is Protestant or Catholic, 60 percent of doctors said they were from either group.

Compared with the general population, more doctors were Jewish — 14 percent vs. 2 percent; Hindu — 5 percent vs. less than 1 percent; and Muslim — almost 3 percent vs. less than 1 percent."


Hey, not only do I want my doctor to be praying folk but my pilot as well. All those years of college and most still believe in God. That is a good sign.