A Christian hospital chaplain who regularly counsels patients on their deathbeds shared with Insider the things that people worry about most before they die. He said that due to his job, he has "death ...
(RNS) — “My religion is watching CNN,” a feisty elderly woman with cancer recently told a hospital chaplain who had knocked on the patient’s door to introduce himself. The patient, in a thin blue ...
Joon Park still thinks about his patients long after they’re gone. He remembers the young man who lived on the street and had aspired to be a musician before cancer took him. On his deathbed, the man ...
DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Hospitals are playing a key role in the treatment of COVID-19 patients. But it's not just the medical care by doctors and nurses that is so essential these days; the ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Chaplains often share a message of faith and comfort. But two chaplains, at two different Tristar hospitals, share another commonality. Just like the patients they pray over, ...
Visiting the hospital every day is a good thing for the Rev. Thomas Malia, 52. Malia is one of nine chaplains at Mercy Medical Center who cares for patients and their families? spiritual needs. Before ...
We’re in Mt. Sinai Medical Center in Manhattan where the new documentary “A Still Small Voice” begins. It’s during COVID so there are masks and many precautions. Margaret “Mati” Engel is in her ...
M. Oscar Hall used to be so afraid of death that he decided to become a hospital chaplain. Hall has been comforting Houston Methodist patients for nearly 30 years, but it was his own aversion to death ...
LAKE FOREST, Ill. (CBS) – She went from provider to patient. The script got flipped on a north suburban hospital employee who suddenly needed surgery. The senior citizen could be home resting, but CBS ...
Here is my “Perspective” on hospital chaplains and health humanities, published in the most recent issue of the Journal of Medical Humanities. The photo above is of a sketch I made of the “park bench ...