Are medical sciences and religion capable of functioning cohesively?

“Religion is for the hesitant the guilt-ridden, the excessively timid, those lacking clear convictions”

History has shown religion to be the cause of much contention; today it continues to be a serious matter of debate. This dissertation focuses solely on the relationship between Christian religion and medical science and asks if the two factions are capable of functioning cohesively. This research concludes that Religion is too easily used for manipulation and spiritual coercion and as such religious discussion should not be attempted by physicians or any medical personal. Patients wishing for their spiritual needs to be addressed should direct their focus to priests, Chaplains and any other relevant and qualified individual. As a preventative method, religious involvement was found to be an excellent deterrent of risky behaviors, which proved to be particularly helpful to medical science. However in treatment religion had the potential to become an insurmountable deterrent that often hindered the work of medical science. Are medical sciences and religion capable of functioning cohesively? The simple answer would be no but nothing about religion is ever simple.