Sid Schwab’s take on the use of prayer in a terminal cancer case:
I’ve mentioned religion before, relating how, as a surgeon, I’ve seen faith, for some people, make facing deadly illness easier. (I’ve also indicated that I’ve seen it accomplish just the opposite.) Patients’ faith clearly can make it easier for me, when giving bad news and when caring for the dying. But this. These prayer circles, this continuing belief that healing will happen if enough people pray — and, implicitly, if the girl herself is godly enough — is setting the poor child up for a death bathed in self-recrimination. Evidently, it’s already happening.
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Obviously you have become callus and heartless, two very bad things for a surgeon. time to pack it up and get out. I have seen your kind all to often. Leave these poor people alone. Faith in God and his “possible healing” have no place in your world, so you best just not open your egotistical mouth, lest you place your foot in it.
prayer circles, mass, reading the bible, maybe you should try it some time. We have all come to god as our answer and not had to look in the books for a doctors explination. You odviously are heartless and ignorant. Go pick a bible sometime. and may God bless you and make you feel something. Not be so cold hearted as you are.
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