Hi.  I just sent you a message on the subject of medical papers about
prayer.  Re-reading the message, I can see that it looks like I was
going to message you a vast collection of medical abstracts, but in fact
I only sent you a selection.
Anyhow, most of the abstracts had a welcoming attitude toward
alternative medicine and prayer.  There was only one hostile one, that
complained, yes complained, that a disabled child was taken to a shrine
where the family felt that the child had experienced 'some sort' of
improvement and were satisfied that a miracle had taken place.
If the improvement had taken place after some expensive drug had been
administered, even if the improvement had been only noticeable on lab
tests and undetectable to the child or her family, I'm certain these
doctors would not have described it as just 'some sort' of improvement.
Polysyllabic medical terms would have been available to describe the
improvement.  Doctors should not try to compete with religion.  They
just make themselves look small thereby.
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