A dozen young medical students were seated around a large table at a metropolitan New England hospital. They were earnestly questioning an experienced Christian Scientist regarding metaphysical healing of physical disease.
If the cause of disease is mental, one intern reasoned, how does a practitioner discover what in the patient's thought is causing the disease? What does a practitioner do when a patient comes to him for the first time? Would it resemble a psychiatric interview? These particular interns seemed, in some measure, to accept the fact that Christian Science heals disease. And they were there to find out how it does this.
The speaker, provided by the Committee on Publication of The Mother Church, was one of a growing number of men and women called upon each year to explain some aspects of Christian Science to student doctors and nurses who, as part of their training, acquaint themselves with the beliefs and practices of various religious denominations.
