Religion affects a lot in the medical field.Religion is important when treating a patient and when giving informed consent an essential role and caregiving of patients with terminal illnesses and chronic medical conditions is required . Religion has affected a lot modern medicine because of how people research stuff like cloning.Also,religion affects how you treat a patient. Religion has affected a lot in medicine because the research projects doctors do.For example,the bible says do not clone people”Christian groups have opposed human cloning and the cloning of human embryos, since they believe that life begins at the moment of conception and soul gets into body only this way. Christian, however, feel that we have no right to play the role of God, because He is the only one Creator and act of creation depends on Him.”(“Human cloning”) and most scientists back then didn't want to clone people because it was against their religion.If the would have started their research back then they would of been more advance in cloning people. "Cloning should continue even though some claim it's immoral, as it is organized religion that is holding science back just like it has throughout human history (bainbridge, …show more content…
You need to know what is their religion so to know what treatments they will accept.For example if there is a person that had a car crash and they need blood and the person is jehovas witness that means that the person can't get the blood they need because of their religion”.The most defining tenant for Jehovah's Witnesses in health care is the strict prohibition a scriptural injunction against receiving blood that is: red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets, or plasma, be it by transfusion even the transfusion of a patient's stored blood, in medication containing or manufactured using blood products, or in food.”(Elman,”Religious diversity practical points for healthcare