God Arises
The Life We Seek
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concepts of medical science the most
important element of all—GOD.
One of my patients in the hospital during my
internship was a grandmother in her early
seventies with a fractured hip. I had seen her
tissues respond favourably as I had compared
the serial X-ray pictures. Indeed I had
congratulated her on exceptionally rapid
healing. She had now advanced through the
wheel-chair stage into the use of crutches. The
surgeon in charge of her case had indicated to
me that she should be discharged from the
hospital in twenty-four hours to go back
home, since he was fully satisfied with her
prospects of early and complete recovery.
It was Sunday. Her daughter came to the
hospital to see her on her routine weekly visit,
at which time I told her that she could come
the next day to take her mother home, for
now she could walk with crutches. The
daughter said nothing to me about her plans
but went to talk to her mother. She told her
mother that she had conferred with her
