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Introducing spirituality, religion and culture curricula in the psychiatry residency programme
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- Published on: 27 April 2016
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I would like to commend the authors for implementing an interesting and pertinent educational programme on spirituality. As a primary care doctor seeing patients in the Middle East, I am aware of the wide range of complaints Muslim patients will attribute to spirit or 'jinn' possession, ranging from infertility, to headaches, to depression and so on.
Our approach in dealing with such health beliefs in Muslim pati...
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