If "science" didn't didn't work?...?

Question

I 5 years old girl in my son's school was hit by a drunk driver... Doctor's did what they could do... The little girl was in a coma and on life support for 8 months and labeled completely brain dead... Doctors told the parents that there was no hope for their daughter and they should make arrangements for her funeral... One night while sleeping at her daughters bedside in the hospital room the little girl awakened from her coma... 3 weeks later this same little girl was in a coma, on life support, and labeled brain dead walks out of that hospital with absolutely no brain injuries whatsoever... She is alive, happy, and well to this day... Since "science" wrote her off and couldn't do anything for, how could this have happened?

Not once in my question did I state that I believed science was infallible, nor did I say that the doctors were.
Also, this little girl had several teams of doctors "misdiagnos" her. Not just one.
And I never mentioned that I thought it was God that healed her.
So stop making assumptions. I was just asking a question because I was curious about the different responces. "Nothing more...Nothing less"

Answer 1

You mean a doctor has never made a mistake in a diagnosis? Ever? It's a good thing that "science" had put her on life support to begin with. Or she never would have been alive to wake up 3 weeks later

Answer 2

The body is very resilient and so is the person inside. Twenty years ago, a friend of mine was walking across Cameron Street in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and got hit by a pick-up truck doing 45 miles per hour. When the ambulance and emergency responders came and did their thing, they pronounced him dead on the scene. They even had a white sheet over his body. 14 minutes later, he began moaning and moving his head and left arm. To make a long story short, that was twenty years ago, and he's still here today. Sure, he has steel rods in his arms and both legs, but he's alive, working, and recently gave up alcohol (yea, right. For the umpteenth time, lol). A miracle? I don't know. They say if a person dies for longer than 7 minutes and then comes back that they'll have permanent brain damage. Granted, he was somewhat brain-dead before the acccident, but now no more so than before getting pulverized. He works 60 hour weeks running some high-tech bindery equipment and is doing fine.

Answer 3

So one or two doctors wrote her off for dead...arn't you glad they're wrong? We're all humans...so we're all bound to make mistakes, no? I'm just glad that science, as well as the doctors, were able to keep her on life support. It's a medical miracle, nothing more, nothing less. Nothing divine, and no proof for anything other than the body's natural ability to heal, as well as how science is not infallible. That is all. It was human error that lead to her original diagnosis (dead girl walkin' pretty much) and based on the evidence at hand. I'm glad that evidence was wrong, however.

Answer 4

What science? In April 1996 the Journal of the American Medical Association said that modern medicine was supported less than 15% by evidence. The machines she was on are not science, they are technology. So, ill informed doctors made some proclamation that (fortunately) turned out to be wrong. What does this have to do with science?

Answer 5

Were she not on life support she would have died. Were she not quickly saved by science and kept alive by science.

I think it's most sad that you and others give less than no credit to the people who work to save others. If you disdain science and those who daily save lives so much then you don't have to accept the benefits. If the parents had so much belief that medical science is unnecessary why was this little girl in a hospital?

scdiva79, please when someone in your family is sick or injured make room at the hospital for those who appreciate the benefits of medicine and stay home.

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If any of this is true the doctors did not misdiagnose her. They came to a point where they could do no more to improve her condition and she was still in a coma. The body has a great ability to heal itself if given time. The doctors and medical science gave her that time.

Answer 6

In rare cases the body can actually heal itself from a terminal illness. Statistically religion has nothing to do with it - just look at the Discover magazine article included in my source. It covers the phenomenon of instantaneous remissions of cancer. The exerpt below explains how statistically small such "miracles" are.

"Pinning down spontaneous remissions has been a little like chasing rainbows. It’s not even possible to say just how frequently such cases occur—estimates generally range from 1 in 60,000 to 1 in 100,000 patients. Many cases, when subjected to close scrutiny, prove not to have been remissions at all. According to Stephen Barrett, a retired psychiatrist who operates Quackwatch, a number of people claiming to have had spontaneous remissions or to have been cured by alternative treatments never had cancer in the first place. Barrett, who has tracked claims of cures through alternative therapies, says some people were given mistaken diagnoses. Other claims, he says, are outright scams, used to promote books and videos that purport to share the secret of curing cancer or AIDS. "

It is increadibly hard to believe that only one out of 60,000 people prayed for healing. More likely half of that 60,000 prayed for healing and still died.

Answer 7

you realize that sometimes, best hope you can give someone is no hope.

how bad would u feel if you said, there is a chance she will live. and then the girl dies. you've embedded a bead of hope and then it was dashed to pieces. can u imagine the feelings of the parents?

can u imagine their feelings now they were told there was no hope and something good came?

regardless of that mind game, you are aware doctors are not always right?

cause when i was in 6th grade i "broke" my foot, the next day it was only fractured, then the next day it was only sprained badly. and then i healed a couple weeks later. so did god like miraculously heal me 1 day at a time, by one degree? or was this just a stupid error on the doctors part?

lol.

Answer 8

And...?

So a resilient young woman got laid low by a large truck. She was in a coma for a while (but not off life support) then was not in a coma any more.

I think she should have lots of babies so she passes on her resilience to later generations.

Answer 9

doctors are really at the very beginning when it comes to neuroscience. there's so much they don't know.

i doubt she was brain dead though. she certainly could have been in a coma, or even in a vegetative state, and woken up. it happens, even though doctors don't know how or why yet. but brain dead is brain dead.

i'd be hesitant to call it the work of god, because then you'd have to blame god every time someone didn't wake up from a coma, too.

Answer 10

Gonna need a source for that one, I never heard of someone in a coma for 8 months and come out of it with no ill affects.

Answer 11

'Science' didn't write her off. Doctors are fallible. I'm happy she pulled through, I am - but don't be silly and try to draw some grand conclusions for it.

If you want to complain 'shows what science knows!' then ask yourself what her chances would have been if all those scientifically inclined doctors hadnt been around in the first place. She seemed to have needed the life support for 8 months, right?

Maybe you want to say 'to hell to science' Well, in that case don't be a hypocrite and take your sick children to the damn hospital, maybe take them to church or a witchdoctor - so tell me - would praying have helped? I think not.