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The Scalpel and the Soul: Encounters with Surgery, the Supernatural, and the Healing Power of Hope
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Tarcher (2008-03-13)
ISBN: 1585426156
EAN: 9781585426157
Dewey Decimal #: 617.48092
Hardcover: 272 pages
Edition: 1
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
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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Customer Reviews
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Thanks for the great service!
Rating  (5)
Date: 2008-12-21
The delivery was most expedient, the condition of the book was new, and I could not be happier with the way my order was handled...thank you!
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Excellent Book
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-10-30
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
This is a well written and thoughtful book. The author does not include biased opinions but gives his insight from experience. Each chapter gives a different subject for you to view. The Dr. defines himself with each subject and is able to walk in the patients shoes. He talks about his ineptitudes (his standpoint) and opens his heart. A book you can easily read because this is another human being writing and not just another Doctor that places himself on a pedestal. I could not put it down.
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Good Book.
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-09-09
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
Excellent read. (and i dont read much)Had it sent over here to Ireland. Heard Dr Hamilton on a pod cast and looked up the book. He's a really intresting guy, great to see a doctor with his attitude, and respect for his patients. Amazing true storys. Alot of them sad, but a great insight into the reactions of terminally ill people, as well as what the doctor may be thinking.
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Great Book
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-08-28
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
I highly recommend this book! I am very careful now about purchasing books. It is extremely difficult to decide if a book is good based on its cover information. I depend a lot on reviews. Seems anyone and everyone is writing a book today. However, this author is very authentic and does not offend his readers. This book confirmed some of my own conclusions about life.
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New Medecine
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-07-25
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
Dr Hamilton is a very good story teller. He describes many esperieces of his life like a movie we can see. He tackle a spiritual way, not religious, to today medecine and it's nothing to be affraid of, it's only natural. He convinced us that the spirit is whole part of beeing sick and beeing healed.Very good book.
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Retail Price: $23.95
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