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THE BROKEN-HEARTED, THE HEARTLESS,
AND MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY
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(Jane didn’t call last night. She’s still somewhat depressed — said she hasn’t slept as well since taking the night medication prescribed by Jeff. With her glasses, Jane did fairly well reading most of the sessions for March 19 and 21.
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Chapter 4: “The Broken-Hearted, the Heartless, and Medical Technology.”
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Now: Modern medical science largely considers the human body to be a kind of mechanical model, a sort of vehicle like a car that needs to be checked by a garage every so often.
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The heart is often described as a pump. (Long pause.) With the latest developments in medical technology, there are all kinds of heart operations that can be performed, even the use of heart transplants. In many cases, even when hearts are repaired through medical technology, the same trouble reoccurs at a later date, or the patient recovers only to fall prey to a different, nearly fatal or fatal, disease. This is not always the case, by any means, but when such a person does recover fully, and maintains good health, it is because beliefs, attitudes, and feelings have changed for the better, and because the person “has a heart” again, comma, in other words, because the patient himself has regained the will to live.
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