DR MARC SIEGEL: Medical miracles that are real, and those that aren’t
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Is what you are experiencing truly a medical miracle, or is medical technology suddenly stepping in and advancing at the right pace to save your life or the life of someone truly important to you?
Or does it really matter which of these it is? In my opinion, medicine and emerging technologies are the “hands of God” and therefore the coincidence of a miraculous healing that occurs with the emergence of technology is also the presence of God.
I remember my cousin Howard, a retired physician, was hospitalized with severe lymphoma in 2002 and responded well to the standard chemotherapy regimen called CHOP, which has been used to effectively treat many lymphomas since the 1960s.
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Finally, his hematologist told me and Howard that although he was currently in remission, he felt there was a close to 100 percent chance of a recurrence within the next 15 years. But then he said a new drug had just emerged that we could try, a targeted monoclonal antibody that showed promise against lymphoma.
Howard received this treatment and never relapsed, and combination therapy known as RCHOP is now standard.
In 1995, when Melvin Mann was a 37-year-old major, he was diagnosed with the fatal blood cancer, chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). He lost weight, was severely fatigued, and was in a downhill spiral when he was among the first to receive a new tyrosine kinase inhibitor in a clinical trial three years later (CML patients produce too much of the tyrosine kinase enzyme, leading to overproduction of white blood cells). His energy soon returned and he gained weight, and less than a year later he was running a marathon.
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This does not mean that all new and emerging medical treatments are automatically miracle cures. We need to be very careful of snake oil salesmen. New York Giants’ head team physician, Dr. As Scott Rodeo recently noted, “regenerative medicine doesn’t exist yet. The science is promising, but the marketing is going too far.”
In my opinion, medicine and emerging technologies are the “hands of God” and therefore the coincidence of a miraculous healing that occurs with the emergence of technology is also the presence of God.
Stem cell treatments promoted at offshore clinics in Panama, Colombia and other countries are unproven and unregulated, “making it impossible for me or any doctor to give objective medical advice on the subject,” he wrote.
Rodeo also warned of devastating potential complications such as blindness, tumor formation and serious infection. And the effectiveness is noted to “at best modify symptoms.”
Dr. Cover of Marc Siegel and his new book “Miracles Among Us”. (FNC)
Speaking of snake oil salesmen who promote hype that feeds people’s thirst for medical miracles, there are miracle workers in Kenya who claim to cure deadly diseases with magic hand gestures. These are preachers, prophets and magicians who claim that they can heal by magic. There are even medical experts in Africa who claim that spells work. The problem has become so widespread that the Kenya General Practitioners and Dentists Council has expressed concerns about public health safety and professional ethics surrounding these allegations.
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Medical miracles are real, we experience them every day, as I wrote in my book “Miracles Among Us.” These miracles have many descriptions and are unexpected and often overlooked. They cheer us up 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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