Thank science! (And also those people who participated in a campaign to help him get a match.)
My mom was diagnosed with a rare variant of AML (APML or APL) in April 2011. When she was admitted to the hospital, she had at maximum one or two days left to live before she would have hemorrhaged to death without medical attention (no platelets).
When APML was first discovered in 1957, the average patient lived 2 weeks and the death rate was 100%. "God" didn't save a single person with APML prior to 1957.
Now the "cure" rate of APML is 95%. It's pretty astounding. My mom has now lived 10 months longer than she would have without modern medical science and hopefully will live a good deal longer because of it.
My mom is incredibly thankful, not to God (who she believes in), but to modern medicine. She even decided to not invite my Christian Scientist cousins to my wedding (which she was able to attend 4 months after her diagnosis) because she strongly feels that people who disregard medical science in favor of God are literally wishing her dead.
The expression "Thank God!" could easily be intended to show thankfulness that medicine and this person's illness crossed paths now vs. 100 years ago.
Not to spark a religious debate, but this reaction seems to be common among the scientific community. Granted, it seems illogical for a god to be selectively-responsible for occurrences in one's life, but I don't think a lack of correlation is proof of anything necessarily. Some people believe in a deity who sparked the big bang and has done nothing more (a "hands-off" management style, if you will). Whether this merits praise/piousness, it's not my place to decide. But since nobody has the answer (and will probably never discover it), everyone's free to believe what they wish as long as it doesn't impose on others (a rare feat, I know).
A lot of people who believe in God, can credit human discovery and science to the God given ability to learn things.
This isn't a place for this discussion so I am not going to go further into this. We should all be happy for Amit and anyone who finds a 10/10 match. I know I was thankful for my donor.
Thank science! (And also those people who participated in a campaign to help him get a match.)
My mom was diagnosed with a rare variant of AML (APML or APL) in April 2011. When she was admitted to the hospital, she had at maximum one or two days left to live before she would have hemorrhaged to death without medical attention (no platelets).
When APML was first discovered in 1957, the average patient lived 2 weeks and the death rate was 100%. "God" didn't save a single person with APML prior to 1957.
Now the "cure" rate of APML is 95%. It's pretty astounding. My mom has now lived 10 months longer than she would have without modern medical science and hopefully will live a good deal longer because of it.
My mom is incredibly thankful, not to God (who she believes in), but to modern medicine. She even decided to not invite my Christian Scientist cousins to my wedding (which she was able to attend 4 months after her diagnosis) because she strongly feels that people who disregard medical science in favor of God are literally wishing her dead.