Study – Some Doctors Treat Their
Patients With Prayer
Eighty-two percent of Americans believe in the healing
power of personal prayer, and 64 percent think doctors should
pray with their patients if the patients request it.¹
But many doctors are uncomfortable with this role. However,
it may be time for a reassessment if the experiences of Andrew,
a surgeon, and Nancy, an anesthesiologist, are any indication.
Andrew regularly decrees up to two hours a day, including
prayers for his patients. Before surgery he gives a simple
prayer, sometimes silently and other times (with the patient’s
consent) out loud. He credits his prayers and decrees with
everything from contributing to the success of operations
to helping relieve severe pain.
Once Andrew saw a patient’s severe kidney pain alleviated
in response to his prayer. It was an acute situation and
the woman was not yet on any pain medication.
Andrew made a quick prayer to Jesus, Mother Mary and the
healing angels to take away her pain. Without any medication,
the pain vanished.
"It was really dramatic," he says. "As
soon as I said the prayer, she said her pain was gone."
Results like this have convinced him to keep his patients
in his decrees and prayers.
Nancy, an anesthesiologist, also found that decrees and
prayers to the angels and the Ascended Masters made a difference.
She kept up a regular routine of decrees at home; during
work, she would say quick prayers.
When she decreed for women who were having difficulty
giving birth, they were usually spared medical intervention.
After being called to go to the delivery room to give anesthesia
in preparation for a C-section, Nancy would give fiats and
prayers in the stairwell on the way down.
"It was amazing to me that often by the time I got
there, the labor had suddenly progressed and I had arrived
in time to see a baby being born," she recalls. "The
nurses would grin, look at me and say, 'Guess we don't
need you after all.'"
Nancy frequently prays to Kuan Yin, whom Buddhists call
the Bodhisattva of Compassion.
She believes that Kuan Yin helped to save the life of
a woman who almost died during what should have been a routine
operation to remove an ovarian cyst.
When the surgeon cut into the apparent cyst, it began
bleeding profusely. It turned out not to be a cyst at all
but a swollen artery that had been accidentally tied off
in a former surgery. The woman quickly began bleeding to
death.
The doctors tried all of the standard emergency procedures,
including infusing massive amounts of fluid and blood. But
after four hours, her heart stopped beating and her blood
pressure was gone.
At that point, Nancy made a silent prayer, "Kuan
Yin, help!" The next second, the patient’s heart
started beating again and her blood pressure returned. She
recovered fully, without brain damage.
Although the experiences of Andrew and Nancy do not prove
that decrees work, they suggest that both doctors and patients
might want to experiment further with the power of the spoken
Word.
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