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God vs. Doctors

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Can divine intervention can save a person when Doctors have deemed treatment futilre?

  • Yes

    Votes: 9 32.1%

  • No

    Votes: 12 42.9%

  • God, no... Woody, YES!

    Votes: 7 25.0%
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shetuck

shetuck

What do you need water for, Sunshine?
AP: Many think God's intervention can revice the dying

To which group do you belong?

Many think God's intervention can revive the dying

By LINDSEY TANNER, AP Medical Writer 59 minutes ago

CHICAGO - When it comes to saving lives, God trumps doctors for many Americans. An eye-opening survey reveals widespread belief that divine intervention can revive dying patients. And, researchers said, doctors "need to be prepared to deal with families who are waiting for a miracle."

More than half of randomly surveyed adults - 57 percent - said God's intervention could save a family member even if physicians declared treatment would be futile. And nearly three-quarters said patients have a right to demand such treatment.

When asked to imagine their own relatives being gravely ill or injured, nearly 20 percent of doctors and other medical workers said God could reverse a hopeless outcome.

"Sensitivity to this belief will promote development of a trusting relationship" with patients and their families, according to researchers. That trust, they said, is needed to help doctors explain objective, overwhelming scientific evidence showing that continued treatment would be worthless.

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[quote='BusNative;123258;6]To answer seriously, I think faith in a divine healing can help to heal people. Distress is a big part of many diseases and faith or hope can help ease the stress and aide a person's recovery.[/quote]
If one has faith in a god in the first place, I would agree that belief in "divine intervention" does give the patient hope and confidence which can have very strong effects on healing. But hope and confidence don't have to come from a belief in a god, either, which leads me back to my first comment about the thread, shetuck. :wink2:
 
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[quote='BusNative;123258;6]To answer seriously, I think faith in a divine healing can help to heal people. Distress is a big part of many diseases and faith or hope can help ease the stress and aide a person's recovery.[/quote]

To me "divine intervention" suggests that an invisible supreme entity has directly intervened in the process. Positive thinking always helps but there's nothing divine about positive thinking. Anyone can do it, with or without intervention from the skies...
 
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I think the question is worded wrong. Of course divine intervention would help a patient - that would show God is powerful enough to do all things.

The key question should be "Is there a God?" - and good luck answering that one.
 
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