Can You Diagnose a Miracle?

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Can You Diagnose a Miracle?

Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary Religious and spiritual fiction

Author: Dan Lane

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Language: English

Published by: iUniverse

Published on: 26th July 2011

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 546 Kb

ISBN: 9781462019120


When it comes to children with cancer, Dr. Jon Bock is a relentless advocate; he never gives up the fight.

But its not an easy job with pain and death regularly involved. Its been frustrating watching children die of cancer. He and the other doctors in the group can only hope for a miraclea cure for childrens cancer.

A new type of toxic combination therapy is developed to treat a malignant cancer that Dr. Bock has never cured before. Challenged by a colleague to bring him a miracle, Bock and his associates use the new therapy on eight-year-old Teddie Thompson to destroy all evidence of the cancer in the face of life-threatening complicationsand they succeed.

Was Bocks first cure of the cancer a miracle? Despite mixed opinions among his associates, he returns to the colleague who challenged him and asks, Can you diagnose a miracle?

Based on observations of cases and colleagues during the 1970s, Can You Diagnose a Miracle? demonstrates the early frustrations of pediatric cancer treatment and the strides that have been made in the field today.

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