What is the role of religion in the field of medicine?

Answer 1

Religion is a set of beliefs and practices supposed to connect people to God or Gods, ensure they live a moral, happy life, and, in most religions, are able to have life beyond physical death. Religion is supposed to have come from God or Gods telling humans how to live.

Medicine is something that cures sickness. Usually this means physical illness, and medicine usually means something you put in your body, like pills or a shot. But medicine can also refer to cures for mental or spiritual ailments, and some time medicine can refer to gifts or talents people have that help others, or themselves, heal, such as singing hymns, listening well, hugging, etc.

Sometimes religion can be medicine, if it helps people heal from their inner pain. Sometimes medicine is part of religion, usually in traditional cultures.

Answer 2

Doctors currently play the role of that priests and shaman played in earlier societies, except that doctors are mostly stone materialists. Currently, religion plays little to no role in the thinking and policies of the field of medicine. There may be grieving rooms in hospitals, but this is pretty much about all.