Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Holistic vs "Half-listic"
In a city once abounding with Catholic hospitals there is one left (a merger of Mercy Hospital and UPMC). Some think it will dissolve into UPMC completely and cease to be a faith-based care facility. While secular hospitals have noble philosophy statements, they fall woefully short in being holistic. There is more to health than our physical bodies and there is more to life than the medical. Catholic hospitals know this. UPMC -- ostensibly -- is about care, but the bottom line rules. In a Catholic hospital the bottom line is total care towards complete health ... including faith. Secular hospitals will never offer total care and health as long as they see the practice of faith as a symptom of weakness and disease.
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