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Edward T. Creagan, M.D.:
I have a formal presentation on miracles and I have the Cat scans and I have the MR scans and I have the pathology report. Patients who should have died twenty-five years ago continue to live meaningful productive and creative lives.

Oncologist Dr. Edward Creagan, author of the book How Not To Be My Patient…

I attribute it to a power and a factor and a vital force that I cannot medically explain. Other than to say that these patients should not be here today but yet they are and they can walk that daughter down the aisle and they can live productive creative lives.

So what do these death-defying people have in common?

Number one is a sense of spirituality and second is a factor of relationships. These patients always have a goal, which involves another person. I need to be strong for my wife; I need to stay around until my kids graduate from college. It is never a thing.

And says Dr. Creagan, the sheer will to live.

Studies now show that among Jewish gentlemen there is a decrease in mortality during the week before the Passover and an increase in mortality in the week after the Passover. So the will to live can be a powerful, powerful motivator.

At somethingyoushouldknow.net I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.