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The Scalpel and the Soul: Encounters with Surgery, the Supernatural, and the Healing Power of Hope
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 617.48092
EAN: 9781585426157
Edition: 1
ISBN: 1585426156
Label: Tarcher
Manufacturer: Tarcher
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: March 13, 2008
Publisher: Tarcher
Studio: Tarcher
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A Harvard-educated neurosurgeon reveals his experiences-in and out of the operating room-with apparitions, angels, exorcism, and after-death survival, and shares the lessons he learned.
A young burn victim remains in a coma until a ghost appears.
A doctor discovers he can predict when a patient will die.
A clinically dead patient later recounts extraordinary details about the private lives of her caregivers.
A physician needs the help of a Navajo shaman to exorcise the spirit of his dead patient.
These things really happened-and neurosurgeon Allan J. Hamilton was involved in every one of them, and many more. Based on thirty years of medical experience, The Scalpel and the Soul tells the unspoken stories behind remarkable patients and strange events, and shares the moral and spiritual lessons found in them.
For physicians, supernatural inklings and intrusions are disturbing. Doctors cannot be candid with colleagues or patients because they are trained to disregard the inexplicable and unbelievable. They're taught to discount elusive, evanescent powers of the soul. Superstition, omens, and divine spirits smack of madness.
But patients have the same experiences. Life-threatening illness or surgery frequently brings dormant spirituality to life. The soul often needs more than intensive care alone can give. The Scalpel and the Soul explores how premonition, superstition, hope, and faith not only become factors in how patients feel but can change outcomes; it validates the spiritual manifestations physicians see every day; it empowers patients to voice their spiritual needs when they seek medical help; and, finally, it addresses the mysterious, attractive powers the soul exerts during life-threatening events.
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Rating:  - a must drop everything now and read immediately type of book
i spent time after church sunday telling everyone i know about the book.
i saw it on a local early morning talk with the author on the tv (i live in the same city as the author--tucson). ordered it the next day.
amazing.
brutally honest
perceptive to the max.
i cried more than once ( i usually only cry at funerals)
an example of a man who is paying attention to the world and people around him. we are truely blessed to have this insight into his world.
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Rating: - wonderful insight into medicine
This is a must reading for all medical students. So often, the spiritual side of health care is neglected. Often patients are seen as numbers or their disease diagnosis. The interaction between patient and doctor is so important. The author makes these points so vividly. I throughly enjoyed this book and plan to buy this book as a birthday gift for my son who is a surgeon.surgery,spir
Rating: - Medical practice and spirituality in the making
After I completed the book I mentioned the
book to several friends. Two purchased
and have read it. Also one of the two had
the opportunity to hear Dr Hamilton speak
at Barnes and Noble during a book signing
event. He was impressed.
Dr Hamilton writes with a style that was
easy for me to read and understand. One
can see the spirituality developing in his
life and how it affected his medical practice.
I live in Tucson and so does he. Every ... Read More
Rating: - Great Book
This is one of the most informative, honest, and best written books that I have ever read. Everyone who is interested in the medical field should get a copy right away. I hope he writes another book very soon.
Rating:  - A good read.
I thought the book was good. I was expecting more stories about the author's depciction of the afterlife through his patients experiences. I was pleasantly suprised on the stories of hope and love instead. We'll written and hartwarming.
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