The Archives of Internal Medicine, a journal of the American Medical Association, has published a study on how physicians should respond when patients’ religious beliefs come in conflict with the doctor’s medical recommendations. The study’s authors conducted in-depth interviews with 21 doctors to explore possible conflicts between medicine and faith, which generally seem to arise when religious doctrine is in direct conflict with medical advice; in scenarios that touch on major controversy within the broader society; or in instances of relative medical uncertainty, when patients “‘choose faith over medicine.'” In the end, the study had no concrete evidence of how physicians do respond to religious-medical conflicts, but advised that they should “‘intuitively navigate a tension between respecting patients’ autonomy…and seeking patients’ good.'”