My friend is a heart surgeon, an atheist also, is it a miracle when he saves a patient's life with surgery?
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pure science my friend. pure science.
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Hi. My husband and I are debating a similar question for his dad. He had open heart 9 years ago, and has also had multiple procedures on carotid arteries. He's in horrible shape now and we fear that he won't survive another open heart surgery... but we want him to have a better way of life than what he has now, if it's possible. To answer yours- if the person is in pretty good physical strength and condition, I think it's totally worth it. BUT, like the other 2 people said, talk to the Dr's. Write down your questions and concerns.  That's why I'm on here-trying to get as much information as possible for the Dr's appt. Good luck!
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Hi \n\nI have to say that i CERTAINLY believe in prayer and miracles.\n\nA little story........just 15 months ago, my body was crushed by an 18 wheeler truck. My pelvis was completely detached, along with a tennis ball size hole that was torn all the way through my lower abdomen. There were many, many other gruesome injuries as well. I was expected to die by my doctors, but, i believe, though positive thought and ALOT of prayer, i survived. I lost all body function for a few months, but now, the only visible sign is that i walk with a cane. This was my second near death experience in my life. Everything else is back to how it was. I'm a very healthy 26 year old male. I was in a foreign country, so i had absolutely nobody to visit me everyday. I layed in a hospital bed for eight months and had to be taught how to use my body all over again. But, i prayed and conditioned my mind to believe i was getting better, and i did.\nAs long as your friend has friends and family who love her, just be there for her and keep believing and have faith.....everything will work out the way it supposed to. NEVER LOSE HOPE AND FAITH!!!!
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Yes it is allowed, and I am one.  Saving the life of another is a very high honor in Islam.  Life is sacred.  I am a muslim woman and I signed the back of my Driver's License that states that I wish to donate my organs.  God willing, I can save somebody in death with my heart, brain, or other items.  I don't think my lungs would be too good, though, since I have chronic bronchitis and have had pneumonia.
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A person is an atheist based on an analytical view and has therefore settled any questions as to otherwise.  It is not a whim or a notion, it is based on as solid a foundation as any religion, more so actually because it is based on what we believe to be fact.  I would certainly hope that the kind lady would not ask me to change my heart on this matter.  And, in turn, even though I would agree to be the recipient for the kidney that will give her a "reward" from God, I would not ask her to change her view toward God.  Please bear this in mind:  Although it is rare, sometimes people will perform sacrifices for each other with no other motive (i.e. rewards, going to heaven, avoiding hell) than to be good human beings.  That, my dear, is a rare and true sacrifice.
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Pray to the Divine Mercy! My son needed a liver transplant before a miracle happened to him. The tumors disappeared and his 100% cancer free now without any surgery. Visit http://www.apodivinemercy.com to read more testimonies!
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Well, in medicine nothing is ever for certain, we just say what is the most probable thing that may happen, but everythings possible, somethings are unexplainable, and that's where God comes in, its awesome you can walk again, and be a track star, i'd say a miracle, good luck!
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As noted, it's likely that you are not a suitable donor, if your friend is not a relative.\n\nHow is your friend's life in danger?  Is your friend receiving hemodialysis?  Generally that is a life-saving option.  For many patients, peritoneal dialysis is another option.\n\nI would advise everyone to sign up to donate organs after their death, but for living patients, caution is appropriate.\n\nIt might be rare, but I have seen kidney donors pay a price in terms of their health.  \n\nIt might be unique to my experiences, but I would be extra cautious regarding laparascopic surgery.
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Here is one of the miracles that God has blessed me with!   One Morning, I was making breakfast (frying bacon), I have a problem with my nerves so my hands were shaking that day.\nI was flipping the bacon, and for some odd reason I had lifted the pan and the bacon grease had spilled all over my right hand! That is the hand that I alway use, I'm right handed! So like a dummy I wraped it, by wrapping it I locked the heat in and it made the burn worse! I didn't know that was the wrong thing to do, I DO NOW!!! I went to the emergency room, I had a blister that was about 6 inches tall and as fat as can be, I had to wait in the waiting room, while I was waiting a lady came over to me looked at my hand and ask me what had happened?  So I showed her my burn, and told her how it had happened,\nShe layed her hand above the blister and prayed for my hand to  heal. A few minuets later I was called. My blister had busted while I was waiting. When I had went in to see the Doctor, he removed the blister and told me that I have a third degree burn! I was so afraid because this was my right hand, the hand that I use for everthing! I had to go and have a skin graft done! When I went to get the skin graft there was no one in the office,(I thought that was strange) even at lunch time they have someone watching the desk! I wasn't going to wait around until they came back so I went home. I decided that I would call them and reschule! So I went home and did exactly that. As the days went by I noticed that the burning pain was not as bad as it was, and that my burn was healing! It has been over a year now and the burn is totally healed, all that I have is a very slight scar that is red, and I never loss the use of my hand. That is a true& honest miracle from God! And I Thank him for all of his Beautiful Miracles that he blesses me with each & every day!!!\nThis is to the first person that answered your question.\nGod does not hate any one! He loves and watches over us all!\nIn order for you to see  God's miracles you have to have complete love & faith in him! God has blessed you with many miracles, just waking up each morning is a miracle! \nGod Bless You!!!
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Don't be afaird. Time has changed. This surgery will give you back your life!! Just do what they say,and have some faith. Today's science is WONDERFUL!!
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Yes.  Someone above thinks God is merciful for letting us live -- that is NOT always the case.  Go to the hospitals and see those begging to be set free from their lives of pain and misery.  So, yes, "life" could be more merciful since I'm sure "God" doesn't exist (except in the imagination).
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It is a heart surgeon. They make a little over half a million dollars each year. They operate only on the heart.
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A few months ago a friend and I were talking about Benny Hinn, questioning his ministry.  I had never actually seen Benny Hinn before; I had only heard about what goes on at his crusade meetings.  We had nothing positive to say.  \n\nNow, at the time, I had a throat infection that was getting stronger and stronger by the day.  A few days after I had been talking with my friend, I turned on Christian TV and saw Benny Hinn.  I thought I had better actually watch, since I'd been saying some pretty bad things about him, with no evidence to back up my scepticism.\n\nI was critical during the whole show.  At the end, Benny was sitting on a couch, talking to the camera, praying for sick people watching.  He was calling out various physical problems that God was healing.  Just when I thought, "This is ridiculous" and was about to turn off the TV, Benny said something like, "Someone has just been healed of a throat infection."  I heard it, and, started to wonder if it could actually be possible.  I swallowed and the pain was totally gone.  I could breath normally for the first time in about a week.  I was radically healed.  The next day I woke up, almost expecting the infection to be back, but it was gone, for good.\n\nWhat I learned from this:  DO NOT JUDGE!!!  As far as I know there is absolutely nothing unbiblical that goes on at Benny Hinn's meetings.  The Bible is clear that Jesus "stripes" (or wounds) were for our healing (as His death was for our eternal life).  Whether miraculously or over time, I believe it is always God's will for us to be healed, as sickness and death are a part of the curse He came to remove.  We just need to hear it preached from the Bible in context (faith comes by hearing), and believe, as we believed when we were born again.
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First I would advise against referring this friend to mental heath care unless you believe him/her to be seriously suicidal (even then, pray about it first). From first-hand experience, I can say that doctors, no matter how well meaning, rarely can make things better, especially if they are not christian. Mental hospitals can keep patients alive, but they can't make the root problem better. Only God can do that.\n\nSecond, as someone else said, advice is not usually welcome in someone depressed, so think carefully before you speak. I can't give you any specific help except don't give general advice (for example, suggest he/she take a fifteen minute walk each morning and evening, rather than the more general, "be more active").\n\nFinally, instead of specific verses, I would suggest reading with her/him everyday if he/she will allow it. What may not strike you may be the exact key that they need. The King James Version (this is not evident in any other version) also has a soothing property in its sound arrangement which scientists have found helps to calm distress.\n\nIf he she is suicidal, I would suggest this section in which Paul describes feeling the same way:\n2 Corinthians 1:3-10, "Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;\nWho comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.\nFor as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.\nAnd whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.\nAnd our hope of you is stedfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation.\nFor we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:\nBut we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:\nWho delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;"\n\nGod bless you and help your friend.
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Yes sadly they are.  Most of these so called "preachers" are hoaxes.  Do miracles happen today?  Absolutely, but that doesn't mean God needs someone on stage knocking people down.  They are most likely payed hush money, or it may even be Satan.  Either way, healing comes from sincere prayer, not through a guy yelling on stage singing like he is drunk.  My grandmother was cured of stomach Cancer when the day before surgery, the elders of the church laid their hands on her, and asked God that if it was HIS will that she might be healed, and she didn't need the surgery.  Just prayer guys, it is the most powerful.
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yes. it depends on how clean the cut, how much bloodloss, how fast the healthcare professionals to act on this etc. just b elieve in miracles because thats what faith is for
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Religion has a very important place in medicine. First God uses other people to do His work in the world. Often when a Doctor has done all he/she knows to do they will pray for help and more than one miracle has happened this way. I have seen it.\n\nAlso it brings comfort to the patient and the family in times of terminal illness. It also helps the medical personal to cope with the fact that there is a limit to what they can do.