Oct 4, 2005
Doc asked patient to pray
THE letter, 'Should teachers seek to convert pupils?' (ST, Oct 1),
reminded me of an incident at a specialists' clinic in a hospital
some years ago.
I was consulting an oncologist on the outcome of a CT scan.
Grim-faced, he told me the bad news: my cancer had returned.
Fully aware that I was not a Christian, the doctor asked me to
kneel with him and pray. This made me even more distraught because
the conclusion was that conventional medicine had run its course
and divine intervention was needed.
At that critical moment, I felt that faith and medicine should not
have been dispensed in the same prescription.
Alvin Choo Weng Kee
