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Liz Crowe delves into the deeper issues surrounding critical care and religion. She explores how religion influences patients and their families, why doctors can push against faith, and how the healthcare community can integrate an acceptance of faith into their care. The ultimate goal in working with any patient and their family is connection. This guarantees respect, integrity and ensures all communication is understood and goals are worked on together to optimise health outcomes. Connection is also a protective factor for patients and staff as it builds resilience and wellbeing. Health professionals are often uncomfortable or annoyed if people of faith want to integrate their beliefs and hopes into medical conversations and outcomes. Health professionals may perceive faith or religion as a threat or oppositional to science and the reality of the situation. Ideally faith may be an additional resource for health professionals to use with patients and their families in times of crisis, uncertainty, and end