The Scalpel and the Soul: Encounters with Surgery, the Supernatural, and the Healing Power of Hope by Allan J. Hamilton
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Book Reviews of The Scalpel and the Soul: Encounters with Surgery, the Supernatural, and the Healing Power of Hope
Book Review: New Medecine
Summary: 5 Stars
Dr Hamilton is a very good story teller. He describes many esperieces of his life like a movie we can see. He tackle a spiritual way, not religious, to today medecine and it's nothing to be affraid of, it's only natural. He convinced us that the spirit is whole part of beeing sick and beeing healed.Very good book. Book Review: a must drop everything now and read immediately type of book
Summary: 5 Stars
i spent time after church sunday telling everyone i know about the book.
i saw it on a local early morning talk with the author on the tv (i live in the same city as the author--tucson). ordered it the next day.
amazing.
brutally honest
perceptive to the max.
i cried more than once ( i usually only cry at funerals)
an example of a man who is paying attention to the world and people around him. we are truely blessed to have this insight into his world.
about 1/2 through i was sure that this is the result of a people who have journalled and interacted with his experience and a conscious and meticulous way, sure enough, in the appendix is a line about his 20 volumes of journals kept at his grandfather's impetus since he was an early teen...a big recommendation for keeping a journal and making it a significant part of your intellectual and spiritual development.
the medical schools and doctor's unions could do no better of a thing then to declare tomorrow a stand down day like the military does and require all physicans to read this book and discuss it with each other and the patients.
a big thank you to the author for being so self disclosing and honest with us (and i suspect with himself)
i for one will be looking for venues he is speaking at to hear him lecture...
Book Review: wonderful insight into medicine
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a must reading for all medical students. So often, the spiritual side of health care is neglected. Often patients are seen as numbers or their disease diagnosis. The interaction between patient and doctor is so important. The author makes these points so vividly. I throughly enjoyed this book and plan to buy this book as a birthday gift for my son who is a surgeon.surgery,spirBook Review: Medical practice and spirituality in the making
Summary: 5 Stars
After I completed the book I mentioned the
book to several friends. Two purchased
and have read it. Also one of the two had
the opportunity to hear Dr Hamilton speak
at Barnes and Noble during a book signing
event. He was impressed.
Dr Hamilton writes with a style that was
easy for me to read and understand. One
can see the spirituality developing in his
life and how it affected his medical practice.
I live in Tucson and so does he. Every now and
then an article appears in the AZStar about him.
Agree with him or not? The book is a good read.
Some of his medical suggestions are worthy of
consideration. A few others I wonder...But I am
not a surgeon as he is...
Book Review: Great Book
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of the most informative, honest, and best written books that I have ever read. Everyone who is interested in the medical field should get a copy right away. I hope he writes another book very soon.