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Why patients have nothing to fear from Godless doctors

According to a new report, doctors are influenced by their religious faith or lack of it in deciding how to treat terminally ill patients.

The medical sociologist who compiled the report for the British Medical Journal, Professor Clive Seale, found that non-religious doctors are twice as likely as religious ones to administer treatments either intended or expected to shorten the lives of terminally ill patients.