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    Why Doctors Should Start Taking Your Past Spiritual History

    Sharing what meaning you take from illness can enhance your treatment and sense of well-being.Illustration by Len Small Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . A little over a decade ago, Farr Curlin, a physician and professor of medical humanities at Duke Divinity School, became curious about the spiritual lives […]
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    This Cancer Treatment Extends Life Without Pills, Radiation, or Surgery

    The very act of existential unburdening proves to be life prolonging.Photograph by UpperCut Images / Getty Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . What would go through your mind if I told you that you had cancer? Perhaps you’d wonder how you got it, or how you were going to […]