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Our first acknowledgment is to each other as co-authors. Reimer is listed before Wagner in the title page out of deference to alphabetical order. We are friends and professional colleagues who have remained so throughout the writing of this book. This is a fully collaborative effort divided as evenly as anything could be divided. Secondly, we thank Charles A. Williams, M.D., who supplied the glossary of medical terms. We deeply appreciate his gift of making the obscure understandable to those of us who must cope with unfamiliar terms in the hospital environment.

We are also grateful to other clergy who have offered the benefits of their experiences in hospital visiting. They represent a broad range of denominations, geographical settings, and ministerial styles. Their stories and insights appear throughout the book. Therefore we thank A. Russell Ayre, Richard Bailar, Donald Bain, Robert Besalski, Richard Dietrich, Sue Gallagher, Rabbi Allan Lehmann, Donald Miller, Richard Sebastian, William Tuck, and John Rutland-Wallis. We thank the following mental health professionals from community and university settings who gave us useful perspectives on community resources and psychiatric hospitalization: Dr. James Archer, Dr. Mary Anna Hovey, and Dr. Douglas Starr. We appreciate the medical advice on technical questions supplied by Robert McCollough, M.D., and David Paulus, M.D.

Wayne Oates read this manuscript and immediately found those places we needed to fill gaps, make the vague specific, and add data. Barbara Beynon did much of the typing, and Ann Terrell managed the difficult task of final typing for two different authors. Stephen Wilburn of Morehouse Barlow had a contagious enthusiasm for this book which gave us just the encouragement we needed. We thank them all.

Finally, we wish to express our deep gratitude to the many patients and parishioners who have enriched this book by sharing themselves with us.

Acknowledgments are appropriate for contributions made to the revision. At Shands Hospital and the University of Florida's College of Medicine, Bill Treloar, Director of Case Mix Management, Loretta Fauerbach, Director of Infection Control, and Ray Moseley, Ph.D., Director of the Medical Humanities Program, made thoughtful and informed suggestions. Russell Clifton, Ph.D., of HCA Grant Center Hospital, and Tom Erney, Ph.D. of the Quest National Center, both reviewed information on adolescence and psychiatric hospitalization. Carolyn O'Boyle typed the revised portion of the manuscript.