Is what you are experiencing truly a medical miracle, or is it simply medical technology advancing at just the right speed to save your life, or the life of someone truly important to you?
Or does it actually matter which of these it is? To me, medicine and advancing technologies are the “hands of God,” and so the coincidence of a miraculous recovery, just as a technology emerges, is the presence of God.
I remember when my cousin Howard, a retired physician, was hospitalized in 2002 for raging lymphoma, and he responded well to a standard chemotherapy regimen called CHOP, which had been used since the 1960s to effectively treat many lymphomas.
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Finally, his hematologist told me, and Howard, that even though he was now in remission, he believed the chance of recurrence in the next fifteen years was almost 100 percent. But then he said there was a new drug we could try that was just emerging, a targeted monoclonal antibody that was showing increasing promise against lymphoma.
Howard got it and never had a recurrence, and the combination therapy is now standard, known as RCHOP.
In 1995, Melvin Mann, a 37-year-old major in the Army, was diagnosed with a deadly blood cancer, chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML). He lost weight, became severely fatigued and found himself in a downward spiral when, three years later, he was one of the first in a clinical trial to receive a new tyrosine kinase inhibitor (CML patients produce too much of the enzyme tyrosine kinase, which leads to an overproduction of white blood cells). Soon his energy returned and he gained weight and less than a year later he ran a marathon.
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This is not to say that all new and emerging medical treatments are automatically miracle cures. We must be very wary of snake oil salesmen. Like Dr. Scott Rodeo, head team physician for the New York Giants, recently noted, “regenerative medicine isn’t here yet. The science is promising, but the marketing is sprinting too far ahead.”
To me, medicine and advancing technologies are the “hands of God,” and so the coincidence of a miraculous recovery, just as a technology emerges, is the presence of God.
He wrote that stem cell treatments promoted in offshore clinics in Panama, Colombia and other countries are unproven and unregulated, “making it impossible for me, or any doctor, to provide objective medical advice on them.”
Rodeo also warned of devastating potential complications, including blindness, tumor formation and serious infections. And that the effectiveness is ‘symptom modifying at best’.
Dr. Marc Siegel and the cover of his new book, “The Miracles Among Us.” (FNC)
Speaking of snake oil salesmen promoting a hype that plays on people’s hunger for medical miracles, in Kenya there are literal miracle workers who claim to cure fatal diseases with magical hand movements. These are preachers, prophets and magicians who claim that they can provide healing by casting spells. And there are even medical professionals in Africa who claim that magic spells work. The problem has become so widespread that the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Council has raised concerns about public health safety and professional ethics surrounding these claims.
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Medical miracles really exist, we experience them every day, as I wrote in my book ‘The Miracles Among Us’. These miracles have many definitions and are unexpected and often overlooked. They are uplifting and give us hope in the new year.
At the same time, we must be wary of those who offer us free miracles to make money or otherwise control us.
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