Hostility to Hospitality: Spirituality and Professional Socialization within MedicineSpiritual sickness troubles American medicine. Through a death denying culture, medicine has gained enormous power an influence it maintains by distancing itself from religion, which too often reminds us of our mortality. As a result of this separation of medicine and religion, patients facing serious illness infrequently receive adequate spiritual care, despite the large body of empirical data demonstrating its importance to patient decision making,