A short segment from a YouTube talk by Dr. Tabatha Barber emphasizing the need to integrate spirituality and faith into medical care for women. The speaker recounts a patient who appreciated having God and miracles included in discussions of prognosis, and argues that illnesses can carry spiritual lessons; she calls for clinicians to attend to the soul as well as the body.
Women need you guys to show them a different way, to show them that their body does have the ability to heal and overcome so much and thrive and that we can't leave the soul out of the conversation. You know, I had a patient who said to me, you're the only one who brought God into the conversation. Nobody brought God into it at all. It's all just like, facts, figures. Here's your statistics and your prognosis. She's like, what about the miracles of God? What about God's plan for me? And I'm like, yes, amen. Thank you. So we just need to be this light in this darkness that is happening. Like, there's a spiritual component and there's a God running all of this, and we need to pay attention. We need to ask him why this is happening to us or because I truly believe, like, we're supposed to be getting lessons out of these diagnoses.
