Hi Sondra...
-> Although my oncologist was/is a firm believer in the power of prayer
-> (as was/is my surgeon), both were very competent physicians, and both
-> are instructors in their specialities at a medical school.  I would
-> not have considered having it any other way.
I've now uploaded 704 medical literature citations, with abstracts where
available, from Medline.  These came up under prayer and/or distant
healing ('distant healing' was an alternative heading suggested by the
system I use, Compuserve's Paperchase).  Medline is a data base of
citations from more than 4000 medical journals going back about 30
years.
Anyhow, I've just scanned these citations and I see some very
encouraging papers:  eg, a paper that reported favourable results for
'intercessory' prayer in a coronary care unit, favourable comments
about 'petitionary' prayer and a paper that says those who visited
Lourdes reported less depression afterwards, papers that found people
were using 'alternative' therapies in combination with mainstream
medicine.  One paper found that persons diagnosed with AIDS reported a
16% frequency of using 'alternative' therapies before diagnosis, and a
100% frequency of using 'alternative' therapies after diagnosis...!
Anyhow, I'll go through the abstracts properly and send you a more
detailed message.
-> One nice thing about both my surgeon and my oncologist: both believed
-> there was more to healing, or failure to heal, than just the
-> medicine.
Very good!  The neurologist that I see wasn't trying to take credit for
my 'remission' (AKA 'misdiagnosis') but another specialist was making
congratulatory noises about the neurologist when describing my condition
to another doc.  I loathe these insinuating doctors.  :(
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