In my post, Saddle Up, Doc!, I wrote about a program run by Dr. Allan Hamilton using horses to teach sensitivity to medical students.
Dr. Hamilton has a blog, and it’s fascinating! From the Scalpel to the Pen explores Hamilton’s ideas about where medicine and spirit converge.
Dr. Hamilton also has published a book, The Scalpel and the Soul: Encounters with Surgery, the Supernatural, and the Healing Power of Hope, in which he explores faith, hope and spirituality as a part of healing and recovery in terms of his personal experiences as a neurosurgeon.
“When a health crisis strikes, we confront great dangers and dark fears.
Yet illness can offer opportunities to tap into unseen powers beyond the physical world. When we reach out, the world of the spirit becomes ours.”
— Allan Hamilton, MD
I wish Dr. Hamilton were my daughter’s neurosurgeon, and I wish his views on the holistic approach to care and surgery were more widely known and followed. The separation between medical care and care of the whole person is a major factor in the health care crisis we are experiencing today. If more providers actually viewed patients as people instead of units to be processed, we might not be in the mess we are in.
You know, I have no idea if the comments are enabled or not. That blog took up tons of time and he decided last year to let it rest.
The second novel is with a few agents right now, so send it some good wishes. I’d love to see it shopped around and sold this year.
billie
I read, but did not comment. Really really interesting blog. So unlike the usual blather. I love more challenging material.
best wishes for the second novel. please keep us informed!
omygoodness, the two of you would have THEWORLD in common with my boss, then. Her shelves are loaded with those books.
I’m off to read your hubby’s blog now. If I comment, will he know it?
Hurry with the novel!!!!
I ordered the book – he’ll enjoy reading it, I’m sure. For a long time he had a blog (which is still online although inactive – but right this moment I am blanking out completely on the name!) where he reviewed scientific research of that kind of phenomena. He had a lot of hits and maintained contact with researchers in the field, including Rupert Sheldrake, Dean Radin, etc.
Oh, it was Science is a Method, Not a Position – amnap.blogspot.com.
I haven’t been over there in awhile, but it was interesting reading.
An odd synchronicity – I had found a quote in a newspaper by Dean Radin which I am using in the front of my second novel, and when I came home later that evening, meaning to look up where the quote originated, I found Dean’s book (the one with the quote) in our bathroom!
I remarked to my husband that I had no idea he had that book and he informed me he’d been having discussions online with Dean for a long while – and that Dean and I share a leap day birthday.
Small world. 🙂
Thanks for sharing this – my husband especially will be interested. He has a fascination with psi experiences and near-death experiences. This sounds fascinating.
billie
I think your husband will find even more to this book than that, though from a physician’s perspective those stories will carry extra weight.
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