Of course. The Church of Scientology has always had the firm policy of not diagnosing or treating the sick. Medical doctors are trained to deal with the physical aspects of illness and injury. A Scientologist with a physical condition is always advised to seek and obtain the needed examination and treatment of a qualified medical professional. Once under medical treatment, a Scientologist then addresses his illness or injury with auditing to handle any spiritual trauma or other factors connected with the physical condition which may have predisposed him to illness or injury.

There are also many medical doctors who are Scientologists themselves.

How does Scientology view marriage and the family?

Scientology regards the family as the building block of any society and marriage as an essential component of a stable family life.

People often find that after they begin practicing Scientology, their relationship with their spouse and other family members strengthened dramatically. That is because Scientology teaches an individual to communicate more freely with others, raises his ability to love other people and puts him in better communication with family and friends.

Surveys have found that after participating in Scientology services, individuals are more likely to marry or stay married and to have children than before they became Scientologists.

How does the Church view relationships between Scientologists and family members who are not Scientologists?

The Church encourages and helps its members to have excellent family relationships, whether their relatives are Scientologists or not. In fact, relationships between a Scientologist and the rest of his family routinely improve after his involvement in Scientology, because through Scientology one acquires the means to increase communication and resolve any problems that might have existed before.

The Church goes to great lengths to reconcile family differences should any such problem arise. Family members of Scientologists are always welcome to visit the Church, to meet other Scientologists and to have their questions about Scientology answered.

The only occasions when reconciliation is hard to accomplish is when extremist, anti-religious hate groups intervene and make communication difficult or impossible. Such groups have a vested interest in inflaming rather than defusing upsets among family members, and are always closely connected to deprogrammers—hired thugs who prey upon the concerns of families in exchange for payments of thousands of dollars.

Scientology Chaplains have assisted on numerous occasions in bringing family members together and enabling them to discover the real cause of their disagreements. Regardless of whether the other family members choose to become Scientologists or not, Scientologists take deep pride in their record of resolving family problems and conflicts.