[July 2004 journal entry]
If ethics (i.e., the language of caring) adds a fourth professional language within the medical education and practice settings (in addition to the scientific/clinical, business, and legal languages), then spirituality adds a fifth language. In contrast to the fluency (in the full/complex sense of the term) required re the scientific/clinical, business, and legal languages, fluency in the language of caring is not required. Fluency in the language of spirituality is even further from the required languages.
