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Do I believe in miracles in medicine? Absolutely. If my friends look at the fact I was accepted to medical school, and then finished a prestigious pediatric program on the East Coast, they would say that was an act of divine intervention. It depends on how one defines a miracle. If we Americans call beating the Russian hockey team in the winter Olympics at Lake Placid a miracle, then all of medicine is one big fat miracle. But even by more rigorous definitions there would be miracles daily.
There are the lame who walk and the blind who can see. An orthopedic friend fixed the fractured hip of a lady who had been confined to her bed for years. She could walk. An acquaintance who is an ophthalmologist routinely travels the world and spends endless days in a makeshift operating room doing one cataract surgery after another. She performs a miracle of giving light to the many who have lived in the dark. There are women who nature has made barren who bring their children to me who were conceived outside of the womb in a petri dish. One has twins, and it is a double miracle how she is able to keep up with them. Fetus born too early, hearts that fail, or kidneys no longer functioning are treated, cared for and some organs replaced.See the full content of this document
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Prayer Is Probably Medicine's Miracle
A good mentoring friend started to become slower in thought due to chronic hepatitis. He was fortunate enough to have an anony...
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