Physicians and Prayer Groups .... what do they have in common?

You gotta believe this. Both are working tirelessly to keep Christopher Hitchens alive. I have to divulge here that I agree with Hitchens on more things than not. The one thing that I disagree with completely is his stance that "when people believe in God they destroy their individual freedom". I hope the prayer group people he will be welcoming into his life from now on will make him realize that that statement is far from the truth.

......The country has a language of its own—a lingua franca that manages to be both dull and difficult and that contains names like ondansetron, for anti-nausea medication—as well as some unsettling gestures that require a bit of getting used to. For example, an official met for the first time may abruptly sink his fingers into your neck. That’s how I discovered that my cancer had spread to my lymph nodes, and that one of these deformed beauties—located on my right clavicle, or collarbone—was big enough to be seen and felt. It’s not at all good when your cancer is “palpable” from the outside. Especially when, as at this stage, they didn’t even know where the primary source was. Carcinoma works cunningly from the inside out. Detection and treatment often work more slowly and gropingly, from the outside in......

via: Matt Drudge