Jumat, 17 Januari 2014

Medical Miracles Happen More Often Than You Think

By Marissa Velazquez


Medical miracles are common enough that most doctors have encountered them and many people can give an account of something that happened to them or someone they knew. Prayer is now an acknowledged part of treatment for many physicians; you even see it advertised on television. People who are ill often hope for supernatural intervention to restore them to health.

A miracle is something that cannot be explained by the laws of nature. Modern technology has made it easier to document events of this nature; tumors that are found by CAT scans and then vanish, for example, are matters of record. However, many a miracle doesn't need an X-ray to validate it. If a blind man sees and a paralyzed man gets up and walks, no one doubts that something awesome has happened.

Religious history is filled with the miraculous, usually in a religious context. The Christian heritage is filled with them. The best known include the Lazarus coming out of the tomb, the feeding of the five thousand, and the ten lepers. Christians still hope for and even expect miraculous events, which are a feature of many healing ministries.

For Christians and Muslims, a miracle is an act of God. It may come through human agency - the laying on of hands or by prayer and fasting - but the power to heal, deliver, and revive belongs to God. For Buddhists, the ability to do supernatural things resides in the person who taps into innate power through profound meditation and training. Other religions bring their own shades of meaning to the miraculous.

Medical miracles are often disputed by those who do not believe. They cite the error potential of technology or say that misdiagnoses are common. However, both doctors and nurses often avow that things happen for which they have no other explanation than miraculous improvement. They believe in diagnostic machines enough to proceed with surgery and treatment, and are not prone to blame mechanical failure for the cases where disease disappears in a moment.

Sometimes things work out for the best in a way that can't be rationally explained. A man walks several blocks to an emergency room with a knife through his heart. Another falls from a forty-story building and recovers. Another swims for an impossibly long time in cold winter seas and reaches the shore. People survive when the odds are stacked so high against them that it seems only a miracle could explain it.

Some people think that even the miraculous can be explained by natural causes. They say that the human body can heal itself, that people can do great things when the need is desperate, and that witnesses are gullible if they think they have seen a miracle. There's another way to look at this. The intricacy and adaptability of the human body is miraculous in itself. Perhaps only a divine being could have achieved such harmony in nature and success in life.

It's nice to have medical miracles happening all over the world. No one wants to feel alone in the face of life-threatening illness. Knowing that there is the possibility of supernatural intervention can bring hope and comfort.




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