Experiences of healing after prayer scientifically examined

Photo from the dissertation Healing after Prayer, an interdisciplinary case study, by Dick Kruijthoff If a sudden cure can't be scientifically proven, then how? General practitioner Dick Kruijthoff tries to answer this question in his dissertation 'Healing after prayer, an interdisciplinary case study'. "We did not test whether people actually healed through prayer, but we did test how they themselves and how doctors explain their recovery. That experiential knowledge was central here." Kruijthoff started his research after he came across a special case of healing after prayer in his general practice. He made an appeal and received 83 applications from people with a similar healing experience. With a medical review team, he examined 27 individual cases, and with 14 participants an in-depth interview was conducted. Of these, 11 were eventually judged 'medically remarkable recovery'. Time relationship with prayer.