Science and training gives us the ability to treat people. Not every condition is curable. I have yet to see prayers improve the outcome of a patients condition in 25 years of nursing. I suppose it might help the family feel like they’re doing something.. just smoke and mirrors.

Formal Scientific studies have been done on this. If the sick person doesn't know about prayers it doesn't do anything. I the sick person knows, prayers hurt, presumably because they feel sicker.

Have been a non prayorist for fifty odd years and wondered which idiot would choose a feckin prayer over cancer or MS ...thought I did not believe in god above ..turns out he does not believe in me or anyone ever..ffs does this shit never end....how can people believe in this shit and still breath...

Docs, no question

Doctors

Doctors prescribe, nurses heal, prayer's just useless ritual.

If prayer actually worked there wouldn't be a need for doctors or medicine. People prayed for centuries and used herbal medicine and died anyway.

Neither. Our bodies heal themselves. Doctors can sometimes assist in the process. A positive mental attitude is very helpful IMO.

The Catholic church actually conducted a scientific study on the effectiveness of prayer. They used a large sample size of patients recovering from a similar surgery. End conclusion was those who were prayed for and knew they were prayed for recovered the worst, those who were not prayed for recovered the best. the difference in recovery rates were within the margin of error so prayer was demonstrated as not effective.

do you really not know?

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