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Winnipeg Free Press: Spirituality can meet science on the road to healing, health-care panelists say

April 9, 2024 — 

“As a Muslim, I am reminded daily that I answer to Allah for how I treat my patients. It is part of my identity.”

That’s how Dr. Rizqa Sulaiman-Baradien, a medical geneticist and assistant professor at the University of Manitoba, answered the question of how faith influences her work as a health-care professional.

Sulaiman-Baradien was one of five panelists addressing the topic of faith and medicine at a Ramadan iftar at the university’s Bannatyne campus Friday.

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