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You think religious people are unable to deal with facts because they believe in a God? You think many judges, solicitors, teachers, engineers, scientists, soldiers, doctors, surgeons, nurses, computer programmers, etc, etc, etc, aren't religious? These people, and many others, kind of need to deal with and make judgements based on facts and their religious beliefs are probably irrelevant. There are always exceptions of course, as I'm sure someone will point out.
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That to me has to be one of the great conundrums of the modern age, why are so many medical people religious ?
The Fabrice Muamba situation for instance, a consultant cardiologist who was in the ground on saturday and helped with the resuscitation was interviewed this week speaking of "a miracle" that the player survived (so far) and there have been many references to "the power of prayer" this week, whereas the truth is that if you are going to have a heart attack then a full premier league football ground is probably as good a place to have one as any, a place where medics are already in attendance, where defib equipment is (or should be) in place, where medically qualified people are in the crowd in abundance and one of them is a consultant cardiologist, and the medically qualified people should be the first to acknowledge that its their well practised procedures that kept him alive not 40,000 chanting a prayer.
What the consultant cardiologist forgot was the figure quoted this week of 20 sudden deaths that occur every year in amateur football (where no apparent heart condition previously exists) where the unfortunate players did not have defib equipment or a consultant cardiologist on the touchline - or the hundreds of deaths every year from sudden cardiac death (not cardiac arrest) - its why portable defib equipment is kept in lots of public places now, its that common, and waiting for another miracle or chanting a prayer does absolutely no good for those people at all.
