Raised From The Dead by PRAYER

[zengrifter]

Raised From The Dead

Is it a medical mystery or a miracle? A South Florida man pronounced dead from a massive heart attack and then brought back to life. His doctor says the man was raised from the dead by a simple prayer. Seven's Louis Aguirre has the story.

WSVN -- Dr. Chauncey Crandall isn't your usual doctor. The world-renowned cardiologist is a man of medicine and science, but he's also a man of faith.

Dr. Chauncey Crandall: "If you come in with a problem into our service, we are definitely going to treat you with conventional medicine, but we are going to believe it too. We are going to attack it with conventional medicine, and we are going to attack it with prayer."

He calls himself the Christian physician because he prays with each heart patient he sees at his Palm Beach practice. The difference, he says, is dramatic.

Dr. Chauncey Crandall: "The reason I pray for people is because I found, early in my trained practice, that there were miracles, unexplained healings."

But even his strong faith could not prepare him for what would happen the day Jeff Markin walked into the Palm Beach Gardens emergency room.

MORE- http://www1.wsvn.com/features/articl...report/MI75423

[moo321]

There are reliable reports from Christian missionaries of this happening in various countries around the world.

[aslan]

Interesting story. No matter how many times you read these stories, they never fail to amaze and to renew one's faith.

[zengrifter]

Prayer and Medicine

Several scientific studies have been done to determine whether praying for sick people helps them get better. (This is sometimes called intercessory prayer.) So far, the evidence suggests that it does, even when the sick people don't know that someone is praying for them.

In addition, at least one study has shown that prayer can increase a woman's chance of becoming pregnant.

These studies have been published in legitimate, peer-reviewed journals.

RECOMMENDED READING

A Randomized, Controlled Trial of the Effects of Remote, Intercessory Prayer on Outcomes in Patients Admitted to the Coronary Care Unit
By William S. Harris, Ph.D.; Manohar Gowda, M.D.; Jerry W. Kolb, M.Div.; Christopher P. Strychacz, Ph.D.; James L. Vacek, M.D.; Philip G. Jones, M.S.; Alan Forker, M.D.; James H. O'Keefe, M.D.; Ben D. McCallister, M.D.
http://archinte.ama-assn.org/issues/.../ioi90043.html
This is probably the most rigorous study to date. Published in October 1999, it examined about a thousand heart patients and found a positive effect even though the patients didn't know people were praying for them. From Archives of Internal Medicine, a journal published by the American Medical Assocation. The full text is on the web. This paper has a bibliography of previous research studies.

Does Prayer Influence the Success of in Vitro Fertilization-Embryo Transfer?: Report of a Masked, Randomized Trial
By Kwang Y. Cha, M.D., Daniel P. Wirth, J.D., M.S., and Rogerio A. Lobo, M.D.
http://www.jreprodmed.com/abs/jrm1137.htm
When intercessory prayers were offered, women's chances of becoming pregnant were twice as great. From Journal of Reproductive Medicine, September 2001.

God On Their Side
By Nell Boyce
A summary for general readers of the paper at the top of this list. From the New Scientist. This article requires registration (the site offers a free seven-day registration).
http://archive.newscientist.com/archive.jsp?id=22123600
This page was published on February 2, 2000 and last revised on October 25, 2001.


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