The Dallas Morning News - Praying With Patients: A Dallas Surgeon Finds a Way to Put Ministry Into Practice

Christina Puchalski, M.D. '94, RESD '97, founding director of the GW Institute of Spirituality and Health and professor of medicine, was quoted in an article published in The Dallas Morning News about a doctor who prays with his patients and the growing integration of spirituality into medicine. This article also appeared in the Tyler Morning Telegraph, The Marietta Daily Journal, Rocky Mount Telegram, Lubbock Avalanche-Journal and the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel.

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