Yet Another "Miracle Cure"

via cnn.com

NEW YORK (AP) -- Daniel Walker was on his final lap jogging in his
high school gym class when he collapsed, his flawed heart giving out
on him.

More than four days later, his heart at a standstill, kept alive by a
bypass machine, it began beating again. The 17-year-old's parents
called it divine intervention. His physicians were no less amazed.

"I've been a surgeon for 10 years, and this is probably one of the
most incredible things I've ever seen," said Dr. Abeel Mangi, one of
Walker's cardiac surgeons at New York-Presbyterian Hospital Columbia.

Walker's father described his son's recovery in spiritual terms. "God
turned around, put His hand on my son, and recharged him," said
William Walker, 58, a retired sanitation worker.

His son's ordeal began January 19 when he collapsed in gym class. The
younger Walker suffered from a rare congenital heart flaw that left
his coronary artery pinched, giving him only 10 percent of normal
heart capacity. He was shuttled to two hospitals before finding
himself at Columbia, waiting for a heart transplant, attached to the
bypass machine.

Walker's cardiac surgeons said they could not account for the young
man's recovery.

"It's a miracle," Mangi said. "There's really no other way to put it."

Two days after it began to beat on its own, surgeons were able to fix
the flaw in Walker's heart, increasing its capacity to 60 percent.

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What ? Gawd didn't just MAGIC it back to full capacity ?
Only good for one lousy jump-start ? Maybe he's busy doing
IMPORTANT stuff like smiting fornicators or something ...

An old doctor I knew once said he'd be impressed with
'miracle cures' when someone goes into the tent with
one leg and leaves with two.

Heart cells WANT to beat - they'll even do it if you
put them in a petri dish. Not exactly a 'miracle' that
the guys heart eventually re-started itself. Closest
thing to a 'miracle' is that the doctors or his insurance
carrier didn't pull the plug right away.

And now for the 'devils' - SOMEBODY is going to be sued
for letting/making this kid run around a track even though
they knew he had the coronary arteries of a 90 year old
french-fry addict.

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