Word: nolen
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HEALING: A DOCTOR IN SEARCH OF A MIRACLE by WILLIAM A. NOLEN, M.D. 308 pages. Random House...
...William A. Nolen, author of The Making of a Surgeon (1970), is hardly the first member of his profession to debunk faith healing, but he is the first to write open-mindedly about metaphysical medicine. He became so imbued with investigatory zeal that he subjected himself to a "psychic operation." The result of his two years of research is a book that should serve as a warning to any patient who prefers spirits to science...
...Nolen, who practices surgery in Luchfield, Minn. (pop. 5,262), admits that psychic cures can be impressive. He watched as people in a Minneapolis auditorium flocked onstage to claim that they had been cured by Faith Healer Kathryn Kuhlman, who is neither an ordained minister nor a physician but heads a Pittsburgh-based foundation that bears her name. Followup, however, showed that Kuhlman's cures were something less than miraculous. Sufferers from migraine headaches, which are often caused by emotional problems, did feel relief after the healing service. So did people with bursitis, a painful but transient joint inflammation...
...Making of a Surgeon, Nolen...
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