Soon you are in the province of saints Camillus de Lellis and Vincent de Paul, stewards of hospitals. The case is advanced, though, worse than the doctors had thought, and now saints Jude, Rita of Cascia, and Gregory the Wonderworker, advocates of hopeless cases, lend an ear. Miracles or no miracles, though, our time on Earth is limited, and in the end you call on one of the guardians of death and dying for a merciful end. And save a word at the very end for St. Joseph of Arimathea, patron saint of pallbearers. St. Luke looks after the surgeons and the butchers.
Patron saints are no strangers to subspecializtion.
For a swift and merciful end, there are many to turn to. Samuel Uretsky , PharmD, has written extensively on pain management, ethics, and medical trivia. Clin Orthop Rel Rsch . The patron saints of breast disease. Epilepsy, eponyms and patron saints.