LONDON – British doctors designed a radical solution to save a girl with major heart problems in 1995: they implanted a donor heart directly onto her own failing heart.
After 10 years with two blood pumping organs, Hannah Clark's faulty one did what many experts had thought impossible: it healed itself enough so that doctors could remove the donated heart.
It is a truly fantastic story, both because the little girl has passed an incredible difficult early life with flying colors and because of the testimony of this story to how far medical science has come since the days of leeches and homeopathy. But here was the title of the link that led me to this story:
For 10 years Hannah Clark lived with two hearts beating inside her, but then "a miracle" occurred. » Her life now Ugh. Wrong. Totally, dead wrong. This is not a "miracle." There was no supernatural violation of the laws of physics taking place here, there was something much more impressive. There was an incredible effort on the part of doctors and specialists, and the girl herself clearly has incredible fortitude. There was a transplant. There were years of healing. It is completely ridiculous and shameful for Yahoo to evoke superstition when real people worked their asses off to pull of an incredible feat of medical science. How can we be sure that it wasn't a 'miracle?' Good question! Lets see what the actual news story goes on to say:Girl's heart heals itself
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But she also had a price to pay: the drugs Clark took to prevent her body from rejecting the donated heart led to malignant cancer that required chemotherapy.
Now there's a God you just want to say 'thanks, but no thanks' to. If this had been a miracle, then the girl's heart would have magically repaired itself seconds after birth. This wasn't a miracle, this was hard work from a team of well-educated, hard-working HUMAN BEINGS.
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