Love, Medicine & Miracles: Lessons Learned About Self-healing from a Surgeon's Experience with Exceptional Patients by Bernie S. Siegel, M.D.
This is a book about surviving and about characteristics that survivors have in common.
It is about healing and about how exceptional patients can take control in order to heal themselves.
It is about courage - about patients who have the courage to work with their doctors to participate in and influence the course of their illnesses.
It is about love and about how the journey to recovery begins by examining the role illness plays in your life and by examining your attitudes toward yourself.
It is about individuals whose stories illustrate what might be called miraculous recoveries from serious illnesses.
The stories in this book are drawn primarily from Dr. Bernie Siegel's patients who have cancer. But the examples could just as easily be multiple sclerosis, AIDS, arthritis, diabetes, heart disease or any other illness. The mechanisms of healing are the same.
In 1978, Siegel started ECaP (Exceptional Cancer Patients), a specialized form of individual and group therapy to facilitate personal change and healing. This experience led to hos desire to make everyone aware of his or her own healing potential.
In this powerful and inspiring book, surgeon Bernie Siegel confronts time-honored perceptions, eloquently explores the link between mind and body and shows how you can become an exceptional patient, a survivor.
