Week 6 Christian Ho

This week regards the use of spiritual practice and its application to pregnant women. All countries have their own beliefs and culture when it comes to pregnant women, and thus have different spiritual practices in the Middle East or Southeast Asia region. With the readings spiritual practice has adapted to these modern times and provides services for pregnant women and their newborn. The idea is to integrate modern spiritual practice with modern medicine to provide a better and more efficient experience for the women that are pregnant. Spiritual practice is widely more accepted within these type of regions with caring for pregnant women and their newborns, by integrating these practices into modern medicine and technology will the general population be more accepting of the new medicines. It is suggested to students starting to study in the medical field to be more involved with culture of their future patients to better take care of them. It’s the opposite within the United States with culture having less of an influence on patients getting help, instead to they rely more on modern medicine. Areas that do not rely too much on modern medicine is the less industrialized countries and rely on spiritual medicine for their healing, this correlates with the amount of access of modern medicine available to those in less developed countries.

Is there an actual area where both spiritual practice and modern medicine works in harmony with one another?

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