Department of Family Medicine of the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
J Relig Health. 1995 Jun;34(2):135-40. doi: 10.1007/BF02248769.
To explore the reasons for and the content of consultations between patients and the clergy on medical matters.
four general practices in central Israel.
exploratory descriptive study of 42 patients who had consulted rabbis. They were asked about what they expected from the consultation, what happened and with what effect.
90% of consultations were with rabbis who had earned a special reputation for dealing with medical problems, rather than with a local community rabbi. Reproductive problems, psychiatric, and general surgical problems accounted for the majority of consultations. Most patients went to the rabbi for advice or direction; 25% went for a blessing. In general it was recommended that they change doctors, even when this was not the advice they expected. Only rarely was there any contact between the rabbi and the doctor. In over half the cases the idea of consulting the rabbi came from family or friends rather than from the patients. Being actively religious did not seem to be a necessary characteristic of patients who consulted rabbis.
Rabbis in a medical role do not seem to practise faith healing as such, but rather act to strengthen a patient's faith in the treatment. The medical system does not always succeed in engendering this faith, either in the patient or in the family.
探讨患者与神职人员就医疗问题进行咨询的原因和内容。
以色列中部的 4 家全科诊所。
对 42 名曾向拉比咨询过的患者进行的探索性描述性研究。他们被问及对咨询的期望、发生了什么以及产生了什么影响。
90%的咨询是与那些因处理医疗问题而获得特殊声誉的拉比进行的，而不是与当地社区的拉比进行的。生殖问题、精神科和普通外科问题占咨询的大多数。大多数患者向拉比寻求建议或指导；25%的人寻求祝福。一般来说，建议他们更换医生，即使这不是他们所期望的建议。拉比和医生之间很少有联系。在一半以上的情况下，咨询拉比的想法来自家人或朋友，而不是患者。积极的宗教信仰似乎并不是咨询拉比的患者的必要特征。
在医疗角色中，拉比似乎并没有进行信仰治疗，而是加强患者对治疗的信心。医疗系统并没有在患者或其家人中总能产生这种信念。
