Love, Medicine and Miracles: Lessons Learned about Self-Healing from a Surgeon's Experience with Exceptional Patients

I do believe this book saved my life, not only is it inspiring in its mindset. It has tools in talking with your healthcare professionals that make you a partner in your treatment. I read this book at least 20 years ago, and I still recommend it to friends who are overcoming major illnesses.

I discovered this book in the late 1980s after my Dad's death from colon cancer. What I love about Bernie Siegal is that he does not recommend a particular cancer treatment. He writes about a way to view oneself. In the days when he began to change the way he saw his patients, passivity was the norm for those with life threatening illness. One was encouraged to merely do as the doctor said, not ask questions, and die quietly. I have now been a healthcare worker for well over 30 years, and I am seeing a resurgence of this attitude among institutions. Today's idea is to see the "patient" as a "customer" and to sell fear, (as I see it). We've turned back to encouraging passivity. The lifesaving measures for you or your loved one may be inside the walls of a healthcare facility, or maybe not. ASK QUESTIONS! On the other hand, that alternative practitioner could be preying upon the uninformed. ASK QUESTIONS. What I see as important about what Bernie is saying is that you must find out how you "see it", rather than buying whatever we (mainstream or alternative) have to sell you. The best way to survive the medical maze is to participate in your recovery, in your very life. Your specific answers are not here, but ways to seek them are indeed inside this volume. Bernie's writing is enlightening and positive, though not in a simplistic "put on a smile" way. I believe this is a must read for those living with cancer and for their families. A supposedly scientific study stated that positivity does not statistically improve survival rates. Who gives a damn? I, personally, would rather have a short, happy life than a long, miserable one. When I come near death, joy is what I want for myself and for my family.

This book is a must read if you are struggling with an illness or long term medical issue. It was suggested to me when I feared I would have chronic shingles. My friend's brother beat cancer in part using the concepts in this book. It helped me better understand the link between the mind and the body, and how important that link is for health.

I truly believe this book saved my life 34 years ago. Mind thoughts over body sickness is a true healer. Saved my life from Ovarian Cancer that went to lymph nodes Thank You Dr. Bernie ! This all was 34 years ago. Robin in Wisconsin

The book is full of examples of cancer patients unexpectedly recovering but is also useful for patients with other diseases

This is an outstand book for someone who has a loved one or friend diagnosed with the terrible disease of cancer. The author is an outstanding writer and oncologist with wonderful stories and a strong, healthy view of coping with this dreaded disease and/or being a support to someone is actually has the dreaded diagnosis. More than 30 years ago, someone gave this book to me when a friend of mine was diagnosed with a poor prognosis. It gave me a different way to think about cancer and a more informed perspective on how to deal with someone else's diagnosis. Then, two decades later, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. The information in this book help me immensely as I trudged through the horrid chemo treatments and their debilitating physical and emotional impact. I have bought this book at least seven times since my own diagnosis for other people. Everyone agrees, it is a wonderful book.

I first bought this book when my Dad was battling lung cancer. I read it to him while he got his hour long chemo drip (this was mid 80’s). He was told he would have about 2 months to live. He said “I’m not going to believe that! I’m not ready to die”. He lived for a year plus a few months. I reread this book when I I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2014. I was lucky since they discovered the lump during my routine mammogram. I’ve since bought about 50 copies to give to other people with limited time left to live. I wrote an inscription in the front of each book special for each patient. I asked them to pass book onto another person with health issues. Everyone thanked me for the book after reading it. Everyone should read this book! I highly recommend!!

This is an amazing book. I read it aloud to my mother while she was undergoing chemotherapy treatments and it helped both of us immensely.

Il libro è arrivato in perfette condizioni e velocemente. Lo consiglio per chi vuole approfondire la tematica spirituale e di guarigione in ambito medico scientifico.

I had this book decades ago, and just re-purchased it. It's a wonderful little book that delves into dying and being cured with an equal measure of purpose.

医師である著者は「医師が見込みないと判断した患者でも回復できる。 そういう例外的な患者は、病気から回復する心の持ち方を示してくれる。 誰でも例外的な患者になり、回復することができるし、 そのために最適な時期は病気になる前である。 このような例外は、今の世代には奇跡であっても、後の世代には科学的事実になることもある」 といいます。 邦訳もありますから、がんの患者さんや家族へお勧めします。もちろん健康な方へも。

The book has got solution to deadly diseases- spirituality. Gandhiji had long time ago said that spirituality heals.I believe in faith plus medicine

For anyone battling with cancer it could either be a great help or a hindrance depending upon your state of mind when you read it. It could seem at times like the good doctor is almost blaming patients for their illness by stating that stress (particularly bereavement and divorce) causes cancer and our ability to cope with stress affects our chances of getting it and likelihood of recovering from it. It is, however, an interesting book to read when you are well and has given me some tools to hopefully retain my health. It emphasises the benefits of alternative therapies, especially hypnosis and meditation over pill popping. The key thing I took from it is that it is not stress, but how we react to it, that affects our health.