[Avalon Hussar]

Annointing the sick is not only for the dying. I don’t, frankly, see a lot of protestant ministers in the hospitals I’ve worked in. They seem uncomfortable around death, like they don’t know quite what they are supposed to do in a sickroom. Maybe they just need more training.

I'm really not sure what to say here, other than maybe it's a regional thing as I know for a fact that it's a common practice for local Pastors to visit the sick and shut-ins to pray over them and basically just see to their spiritual needs. One other thing which may make identifying these Pastors a little more difficult is that they don't usually wear any special vestments or other signs of their office. Most just wear their normal street clothes.

[Judith Anne]

All pastors check in at the nurse’s station. None that I know of have ever visited the locked psych wards.