A message from a hospital pastor:
May I humbly request not to call #DamarHamlin’s recovery a "miracle”?
It wasn't a miracle. He had a sudden cardiac arrest with a shockable rhythm, received enough oxygen to his brain to preserve it through CPR, and was shocked back into rhythm.
May I humbly request not to call #DamarHamlin’s recovery a "miracle”?
It wasn't a miracle. He had a sudden cardiac arrest with a shockable rhythm, received enough oxygen to his brain to preserve it through CPR, and was shocked back into rhythm.
With recovery time and ventilator support, he is where he is today.
A miracle would be if he had gone 20 minutes without intervention, long enough for his brain to die, and then spontaneously revive fully intact. Why is this language so important?
A miracle would be if he had gone 20 minutes without intervention, long enough for his brain to die, and then spontaneously revive fully intact. Why is this language so important?
Because when we use miracle language to describe predictable outcomes as a result of tested and reliable interventions, we give the person in completely different medical circumstances hope that they'll get the same miracle, because medical miracles are “happening all the time”
because their pastor describes every medical recovery as a miracle.
Lots of believers suffer prolonged excruciating disease and existential crisis waiting for that miracle because of this misuse of miracle language.
Also, it makes the medical staff's job a lot harder.
Lots of believers suffer prolonged excruciating disease and existential crisis waiting for that miracle because of this misuse of miracle language.
Also, it makes the medical staff's job a lot harder.
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