The Scalpel and the Soul: Encounters with Surgery, the Supernatural, and the Healing Power of Hope,   ISBN:9781585427130

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This book is excellent; there are several stories/patients and experiences, as well as one of the best documented, detailed, controlled case of "after death" or, "during death" experiences/recollections. The stories are all set forth in a cohesive interesting manner and you get a good sense of the doctor as he navigates through the different experiences. I will read this book over again and buy copies for others.

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This is a well written book with its own unique spiritual values by an author most humble. I plan to keep this book in my personal library to review from time to time in the future. I guess I'll have to buy a second book to share with friends and family because I'm not taking a chance on someone forgetting to return mine to me! This beautiful book is a treasure to keep!

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Don't bother wasting your time on this poorly written book (was the author really an English major?). Let's just be glad that this "doctor" and his stupidity are not the norm in the medical field.

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This honest memoir of a brain surgeon will help you get rid of any doubts you might have about the existence of God, our souls, and life after death. It's not a "let's all get happy" book but it did make this reader feel better about life and death. Truly spirituality strengthening.

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Please search "Duplicitous Primates: The Scalpel and the Soul - Part II" on yahoo/google, you will be surprised to find some facts.

The chapter stating a woman named Sarah Gideon remembered what people had talked in operating room when she received a risky brain surgery seems to be actully a revised version of the story of Pam Reynolds! And the car accident that killed Sarah Gideon is possibly simply fabricated.

Why didn't he just tell us the story of Pam Reynolds? It's a well-known story, but he revised it and made it like a different one. There is no need to conseal the name "Pam Reynolds", because her story has already been known as a public knowledge. (Please search "Pam Reynolds" on youtube/google/yahoo.)

So why he created a revised version of a well-known story?

I don't want to say the word "cheating", but if the description on the web page "Duplicitous Primates: The Scalpel and the Soul - Part II" is true, that means it's a tip of iceberg, we can reasonably believe that the whole book is a bunch of fabricated novels.

If fabricated stories can make you believe something extraordinary, why don't you just believe the reality of Peter Pan, or Alice in Wonderland?