The majority of people who resort to faith healing do so in cases of otherwise incurable disease. However there are groups that believe in faith healing as the sole intervention in any health problem.
Faith healing has not scientifically been proven effective, although its practioners often cite much anecdotal evidence of cases where it has been succesful.
Faith healing can result in serious ethical problems when parents insist on its use with their children. Parents argue that they have a constitutional guarantee of religious freedom that gives them the right to refuse medical care for their children. However many argue that because faith healing has not been proven effective, it would be unethical to impose its use on children. Doctors have an especially hard time as it is their strict duty to do everything that they can in the interests of the patient. If they judge that modern scientific treatments would be more effective it is their duty to use them, in direct contradiction to the parent's wishes. Last year in Britain a government ruling allowed a child, against much protest from the parents, to be treated in such a way.
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