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

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 read Love, Medicine and Miracles while going through an illness, and it gave me the hope I needed to keep going. Bernie Siegel’s message—that courage, compassion, and active participation in healing matter—resonated deeply. His stories and insights felt like comfort from someone who truly understood. Though I never got to meet him, this book made his presence real, and it remains one of the most uplifting resources I’ve encountered. A gift of strength when I needed it most.

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.

No one can explain so well what Dr Siegel advises for doctors, nurses and especially patients navigating tough medical diagnoses. No matter what faces you, this book helps. First read it 35 years ago. Have reread recently after cancer diagnosis. Have bought at least 2 dz over the years to give as gifts. And to educate doctors and nurses and facilities. A must read for all medical and dental schools.

A brilliant read for any person living with cancer. It is also a highly recommended read for family members frustrated by the lack of compassion with which oncologolists treat their patients. It accurately protrays the arrogance with which the majority of oncologists deal with their patients and the sense of hopelessness they instill in their patients through their attitude and fixation with treating patients as statistics, playing God and placing a timeframe on their time left on earth. This book should be a must read for oncologists before qualifying.

Great book for anyone that has loved one’s going thur cancer. I gave the book to my daughter who is a RN case manager at the hospital for there recovery cancer ward.

If you have a loved one facing the devastating news of cancer or any life threatening illness, this is a fantastic tool to put in their hands or read together if it is your significant other or your child. HOPE lives in between the pages of this and the other books and materials from Dr Bernie Siegel. My late husband and I had the blessing of attending Dr. Siegel's seminars and workshops back so many years ago and my and my hubby's outlook into his disease were forever changed. We had been handed a sentence by an oncologist that had no understanding that his job was first to heal. Dr Siegel changed that and I attribute to his teachings much of the time we had together that was far beyond the initial prognosis. My heart is grateful even after two decades since my beloved went on to meet the Lord because I recall how this loving doctor Siegel made a difference to us. Today I find myself buying this book for one of my parents who has been diagnosed with Cancer. The journey begins anew. Blessings upon all of you who are confronted with an illness that is threatening your life or the life of someone beloved to you. -- Please let me know if you find my review helpful. It is always nice to know writing these reviews makes a difference.

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

a must read for anyone who suffers or knows someone who does from this terrible malady; looked at much more humanely than most treatments we receive traditionally.

I think everyone should read this book, to avoid illness. Thank goodness the world is waking up and Bernie's ideas are gradually becoming acceptable.

Excellent book, have not finished yet, but is such an important subject which is still not being taught in med school. I was talking to a 4th year med student the other day, and explaining to her how much it can help to get the patient visualising their body healing, and she'd never heard of it. Have been asked by my local Dr. to give a talk to more 4th year med students in a couple of days, and looking forward to enlightening them, and will likely recommend this book to them. Lucky to have a proactive Dr. locally who wants them to become aware of how complimentary medicine can help their patients. And currently the government are considering taking complementary medicine out of the NHS? Not that there's much included in there anyway, most people have to pay. Reuben Battino (oncologist) has also written a book on this subject, equally worth reading.