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View Poll Results: Can divine intervention can save a person when Doctors have deemed treatment futilre?
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08-18-2008, 09:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Taosman
Is asking for "intervention" against the rules? Would God take sides? What about "free will"? Josh, help me on this?
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We know which side your on, Josh. Don't bull[censored] us.
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08-18-2008, 09:51 PM
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"I have an M.D. from Harvard, I am board certified in cardio-thoracic medicine and trauma surgery, I have been awarded citations from seven different medical boards in New England, and I am never, ever sick at sea. So I ask you; when someone goes into that chapel and they fall on their knees and they pray to God that their wife doesn't miscarry or that their daughter doesn't bleed to death or that their mother doesn't suffer acute neural trama from postoperative shock, who do you think they're praying to? Now, go ahead and read your Bible, _Dennis_, and you go to your church, and, with any luck, you might win the annual raffle, but if you're looking for God, he was in operating room number two on November 17, and he doesn't like to be second guessed. You ask me if I have a God complex. Let me tell you something: I am God."
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08-18-2008, 09:53 PM
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Originally Posted by NFBuck
"I have an M.D. from Harvard, I am board certified in cardio-thoracic medicine and trauma surgery, I have been awarded citations from seven different medical boards in New England, and I am never, ever sick at sea. So I ask you; when someone goes into that chapel and they fall on their knees and they pray to God that their wife doesn't miscarry or that their daughter doesn't bleed to death or that their mother doesn't suffer acute neural trama from postoperative shock, who do you think they're praying to? Now, go ahead and read your Bible, _Dennis_, and you go to your church, and, with any luck, you might win the annual raffle, but if you're looking for God, he was in operating room number two on November 17, and he doesn't like to be second guessed. You ask me if I have a God complex. Let me tell you something: I am God."
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I'm the new guy around here and I want to make friends, so I'll say this to you and we'll start fresh. If you don't like my jokes, don't laugh. If you have a medical opinion, then please speak up and speak up loud. But if you ever again tell me or my surgical staff that we're going to lose a patient, I'm gonna take out your lungs with a [censored]in' ice cream scoop. Do you understand me
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08-20-2008, 06:49 PM
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Yes, I think it is obvious that the human mind is capable of healing the human body and that people of faith can be healed. I have seen the most incredible things in remote, poor African villages over the years and heard many stories from doctors.
People like me, who endorse religious values, attribute this to God. Those who do not endorse religious values, attribute it to mental function, chance, bad diagnoses, or other factors.
Who's to say whose right?
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08-20-2008, 07:08 PM
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Let the record show that if/when a serious medical condition befalls me CALL A DOCTOR!  |
08-20-2008, 07:20 PM
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Originally Posted by OCBuckWife
Um, because belief in "divine intervention" implies a belief in the divine entity that can intervene? :-)
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To me, it's not really a question as to whether there is / isn't a "divine physician", so much as the question of whether the person whose sick believes that there is such a being AND that being can/will help them.
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