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When others attribute your healing to their prayers

My cancer is in remission and everyone says it's because of their prayers, but my oncologist says it's the chemo, and I don't want to disappoint people by crediting science.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Social pressure to validate others' spiritual efforts conflicts with acknowledging medical interventions and personal agency.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Prayer — does it work? what the evidence shows?”

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