Keeping the faith: Religion and medicine can make good bedfellows
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Religious and spiritual experiences have shaped my worldview since I was a teenager.
At age 13, I celebrated my bar mitzvah. Later that year, I underwent an appendectomy. A priest asked my mother if he could pray for me before the operation.