While I am always delighted to see interest, passion and commitment to integrating spiritual distress screening, assessment and care into palliative care service provision, there were several comments by Mr Hanif that caused concern for me. He stated, “It is significant therapy when other treatments are not working” and “during the terminally ill phase because spiritual care is the only medicine which reliefs discomfort, pain and helps the patient and their family to embrace death peacefully.” This is not understanding the most recent state of the science of spiritual care service provision. Like other aspects of palliative care that should… Read more »