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The Search for Spiritually Centered Medicine, by Ted Pelonis; photos by Ron Ceasar. Howard Magazine  10(1), Fall 2001: 8-15.
Should the miracles of spiritual healing be accepted as the newest medical technology?
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Coincidence or divine
intervention?

A mind steeped in the Western tradition of medicine might question Callender's assessment, seeing coincidence rather than spiritual intervention. Martin Jones, M.D., a psychiatrist at St. Elizabeth's Hospital and graduate of Howard University's College of Medicine, would disagree. Jones sees miracles in things unnoticed, such as the neuromuscular functions in walking and our ability to sleep. He compared what happened to the young man with the "golden hour," a term trauma physicians use to describe the period when the body works without the patient's awareness to heal itself just after absorbing a bullet or stab wound. To Jones, spirituality takes over when medicine reaches its limits and physicians reach the ends of their understanding.

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Related article: A Question of Ethics, by H. Patrick Swygert. Howard Magazine  10(1), Fall 2001.


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