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Article: Is faith healing better than a trip to the doctor?(Lifestyles)
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- December 1, 2003
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It started out as a routine checkup. You took your blood test, got you cholesterol and cardiovascular evaluations, even a flu shot. Later in the week your doctor contacts you to discuss an "abnormality" found during one of your tests and wants to see you in a few days for "possible counseling."
"What could it be?" you ask, slipping into an inexorable panic, as you mentally catalog disease while playing pick-a-plague in your head: "Isnt there a history of hypertension and diabetes in my family? And didn't my cousin get diagnosed with cancer last month?"
At this point even a die-hard atheist just might throw up a prayer--and ask for the prayers of ...