I have reached the 23% mark in this book and am still waiting to see the miracles. The stories are interesting, but they are more about coincidences and good luck than miracles. I found the title and description misleading.

Very interesting book,filled with stories of synchronicity and miracles. Books like this give hope to people needing for a medical miracle in their life, it is always heartwarming to read stories of of situations where there was little or no hope and then against all odds a miracle came.

I don't know what I expected but lately, I've seen more mind-blowing "miracles" on TouTube.
That being said, these stories were well-written and interesting. Just not exactly jaw-dropping for people who have an active imagination and open-minded faith.

Thank you NetGalley for the chance to read this in exchange for my honest review.

This is an incredible collection of true stories gathered from medical professionals providing memories of miraculous moments during their careers. It was very easy to see why these memories have stayed with them.

On many occasions, it seemed skill, luck and being in the right place at the right time played a major role in events. Perhaps the odd exception can be put down to divine intervention. I am not a religious person but I was quite touched when one doctor stated there is something bigger going on in healing than just doctors and their treatments.

Each chapter provides a summary of its contents, which may be handy for those with an interest in a particular area. Proceeds from book sales go to nominated charities, which is a fantastic idea.

My favourite chapter was the amazing parasite in eye story- http://www.wired.com/2013/10/absurd-creature-of-the-week-botfly/

This book should appear to a wide variety of readers including those who feel they are losing hope. Miracles do happen.
Thank you to Net galley and the publisher for providing a digital version of the uncorrected readers copy in return for an honest review.

These are short stories about the miracles of doctors retelling of survival abet under circumstances that should of surely been death. Stories include, Aids, car accidents, drowning, premature births, etc. Some people actually saw heaven. I truly believe these are miracles, and as I read these short stories, God was at work here. Cancer just doesn't hear itself, you can't just die for almost an hour and return. I love the doctors compassion in these stories, you don't seem to get that nowadays, doctors are stressed, short staffed. Now they deal with red tape, drug addicts, time frames. You really can't get your point across in 30 minutes. Doctors now a days say you might have a kidney infection, come in and pee in a cup and we will let you know in 5 days. Then you have to get an appointment etc. So I totally enjoyed these stories of miracles by these doctors but mostly by God. It just wasn't their time. These doctors actually listened to what the patients said and took steps to not blow off their patients. It worked out because a lot of lives were saved.

Thank you Net Gallery, the many compassionate doctors in these stories, HCI books and our Great Lord because without him we wouldn't have miracles.

Cherie'

First, I want to thank Harley A. Rotbart, MD., Health Communications, Inc and NetGalley for providing me with this book so I may bring you this review.

Miracles We Have Seen by Harley A. Rotbart, MD was a very unique book that will touch your heart, educate you, blow you away with some of the stories, will show you what medical “miracles” look like and uplift you. All these stories in the book are true accounts from pediatricians, internists, surgeons, family medicine specialists, emergency medicine physicians, obstetricians, psychiatrists and sub-specialists.

Harley thanks 74 Doctors that contributed stories to this book. He also acknowledges a list of people whom helped him with everything to individual essays.

I absolutely loved this book, the medical stories, and the human patient care side of the stories as well. I found each story to be fascinating. I have two favorite stories that stuck out to me and touched me in one way or another.

The first one was An Unlikely Discovery by the Unlikeliest Person. This story was told in three different parts in three different perspectives. They were the Student, The Teacher, and The Surgeon. Ryan the student was working on a test patient Jim whom was to pretend he had an abdominal aortic aneurysm. In this section I was educate what exactly what this was. He played the part well or so Ryan thought. He made the diagnosis that this patent really did have one. The Teacher didn’t believe him at first but it turns out he was right. Ryan got high praise write up online and in the newspaper for it. In fact the links are In the bio. If Jim was not there that day this would have never been diagnosed and he could have died at home.

The other story that touched my heart was the Impossible Delivery. This one really pulled on my heart strings big time! Since New Year’s Eve Karen felt something strange with some light bleeding. She had not had her period in 5 years but had a history of uterine fibroid. In the past she had an uterine artery embolization. Unfortunately, this procedure made her infertile. Imagine their surprise when they found out they were 7 months pregnant!! However, she had placenta accrete. If you want to know what happened to the Mom and baby you will have go read the book.

Fascinating read full of interesting stories! I greatly appreciate the perspective from physicians.

It was wonderful to read about doctors' various experiences with miracles in their own words. Every account was riveting, and I liked how the duties associated with their different specialties were depicted. The writing was excellent overall, and the editor was clearly dedicated to producing an excellent collection. I loved reading this truly one-of-a-kind book!

This is a collection of true accounts of people who for the most part, were not expected to live! They range from a baby girl surviving an ectopic pregnancy while traveling from the uterus to the mother's stomach, with only her head still in the uterus, to an older gentleman who survives after having a heart attack on a ski hill!
You will read about a 14 year old who survives a rabies attack, a young child who survives after being 30 minutes in an icy stream, and a young girl who is saved by using traditional Chinese medicines !

You will have to read these stories for yourself to see how God saves the lives of people who should have died!

Reality is more expanded than we understand.
A compilation of astounding stories of inexplicable heart-touching healings nurture hope and strengthen confidence in life as a surprising universal intelligence.
Some stories can draw tears, reflect the human paradox that in the face of our greatest vulnerabilities we are capable of extraordinary virtues, the wonder of human ability to accompany us and help us at crucial and critical moments. Medical and rescue services, healers, faith in a superior force, the timely help of a good Samaritan, altruism, synchronicities ... are beautiful human characteristics, of our capacity for contribution and solidarity, of the natural ability of connection, our resilience in the face of disaster.
The reality is definitely more expanded than our biological mind can comprehend! But our consciousness is able to experience!
My gratitude to the Publisher and NetGalley for allowing me to review the book

An array of essays from doctors in training to professional physicians of various specialties, describing medical instances involving patients of all genders, ages and ethnicity. In 'Miracles We Have Seen', I found truly touching essays that break reason and logic, as well as your heart. This book will make you believe in miracles.
You can read this book in a linear fashion. But the book is formatted in such a way, that you can jump to any page and pick up the next story. The stories are short and are compelling from start to finish.
Along with the miracles you'll encounter throughout the book, you'll find intimate windows into the thoughts and feelings of the doctor's, patients and families involved. Every situation brought a lesson or lessons that were life changing and brought them to the next phase in their life or career.
There's even a section that hosts essays on patient death; what it taught them and how it bolstered them for the future.
Almost as a bonus, there is a chapter on the development track of young doctors and their mentors. It speaks on the importance of role models in a young doctor's career, which would help mold them, their mental and emotional content, to sustain the kind of life they will endure in the medical field; a field where miracles and lessons abound.

Miracles that live on long after the event
Wonderful idea for a book! This is a collection of great stories to inspire and perplex us on how there can be an unexplained miracles of healing. There are stories of people obtaining healing only because they happened to be at a certain place and time with specific people right there. There are stories of a chain of events that had to happen that were so specific for a miracle to happen that if any of the chain links were broken; the miracle wouldn’t have happened. There are stories of unexpected health transformations when the circumstances looked dire.
This book has great purpose and gives great hope to those who might be suffering with health issues that seem to have a dead end. But what I love most was the fact that numerous doctors were able to identify one of these stories and that many said that there was a particular story that “influenced much of their professional decision-making throughout their careers” or that they “draw on those miraculous moments at times when they themselves feel hopeless and tragedy”. The impact of these stories tends to live on far after the actual event.

I received complimentary e-copy of this book from netgalley.com in exchange for this fair and unbiased review.

Miracles We Have Seen is a collection of essays written by physicians and other medical professionals. What these stores all share in common is the element of the miraculous in each tale. It’s not always the miraculous in the spiritual sense, although that certainly does figure into many of the stories, but of the survival or beating of uncertain odds on the part of the patients involved. Whether it is timing of the event, or a fortuitous location for the event to happen, these stories all share that element of surprise at the outcome of what could have been a tragic ending.

The book is broken down into sections. Each section has a theme, such as impossible cures, breathtaking resuscitations, unimaginable disasters, mysterious presence, global miracles or miracles in their own time. In each chapter are numerous essays, each written by a different medical professional. These stories span the globe, with tales from South Africa, Guatemala, the US and more. The authors are all leading professionals in their fields, with many being highly experienced doctors, or professors of medical universities. These are the stories that they can’t get out of their heads. These are the true miracles that even they, with all their years of experience, cannot explain.

Some of these things seem impossible, but they really happened. For example, one doctor had a patient who had both Fallopian tubes removed due to ectopic pregnancies. Yet, this patient managed to become pregnant and successfully give birth to a child, despite lacking the necessary ‘equipment’ for this to occur! How could that happen? In another example, a priest visiting a patient in a hospital happened to suffer a heart attack while on an elevator. By fortuitous chance, the elevator stopped and he fell at the feet of the hospital’s cardiac doctor, who immediately rushed the priest to the cardiac surgery suite he had just left, where all the staff were prepped and read for surgery! The priest survived due to the miraculous timing of his heart attack and where that elevator happened to stop on that day! In another essay, a boy who suffers a decapitation during an auto accident survives due to intricate surgery to reattach his skull to his spinal column! Talk about miraculous! One doctor in training was examining a volunteer who was playing the part of a patient with a defective aortic artery that was about to rupture. The trainee couldn’t believe it when he heard the sounds of a real aortic rupture, so he called in his teacher, who listened and agreed. The volunteer had suffered a real aortic rupture and had to seek medical care immediately, despite feeling no symptoms at all. Miraculous timing!

All the stories in this book share that element of wonder and miracle. You won’t believe some of these things could ever happen, yet they did! All the stories were well documented at the times they happened and witnessed by many medical professionals. All agreed that these events were true miracles. When you read this book, I think you will agree.

As for myself, I am also the recipient of a miraculous healing. When I was 26, I became ill with what the doctors told me was the largest lung abscess they had ever seen. Although the doctors had to remove that lung, I survived by some miracle and am grateful to this day!

I found the book to be well-written and edited. I found very few typos in the text. The essays are written in language that anyone can understand. Any complex medical terms necessary to the narrative were explained or defined in the text for readers who may not know the terminology. Each author featured in the text has a biography at the back of the book where readers can see that these people are well-qualified to judge that these stories were miraculous events in their profession.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book and found myself engrossed in these miraculous and simply amazing stories from around the world. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in medicine or miracles! Some of these stories will knock your socks off!