DR MARC SIEGEL: Medical miracle or modern science? Both can be signs of God at work

Is what you are experiencing really a medical miracle, or is it simply medical technology advancing at just the right speed to swoop in and save your life, or the life of someone who really matters to you?

Or does it really matter which of these it is? For me, medicine and advancing technologies are the "hands of God," and so the coincidence of a miracle recovery occurring just as a technology emerging is God’s presence.

I remember when my cousin Howard, a retired physician, was in the hospital for a raging lymphoma back in 2002...