The implausibility of the ‘impracticality’ and ‘professional role’ arguments. A commentary on Lauren Notini and Justin Oakley, ‘When (if ever) may doctors discuss religion with their patients?’

In their paper, Lauren Notini and Justin Oakley aim to show that it is neither practical nor professionally required or permissible for doctors to have substantive engagement with the religious beliefs of patients with decision-making capacity. This critical engagement rejects their two arguments -...