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Wonderful are the opportunities given to the guardians of the sick. In all that is done for the restoration of the sick, let them understand that the physician is seeking to help them co-operate with God in combating disease. Lead them to feel that at every step taken in harmony with the laws of God, they may expect the aid of divine power.

Cooperating with divine laws brings spiritual and physical aid in disease recovery. The paragraph conveys a religious message about partnering with God and seeking divine aid.

The sick and suffering will have much more confidence in the physician who they are confident loves and fears God. They rely upon his words. They feel a sense of safety in the presence and administration of that physician.

Patients experience greater confidence and sense of safety with a physician who reveres God. The passage asserts a psychological relationship between a physician's reported religious devotion and patient trust.

Knowing the Lord Jesus, it is the privilege of the Christian practitioner by prayer to invite His presence in the sickroom. Before performing a critical operation, let the physician ask for the aid of the Great Physician. Let him assure the suffering one that God can bring him safely through the ordeal, that in all times of distress He is a sure refuge for those who trust in Him. The physician who cannot do this loses case after case that otherwise might have been saved. If he could speak words that would inspire faith in the sympathizing Saviour, who feels every throb of anguish, and could present the needs of the soul to Him in prayer, the crisis would oftener be safely passed.

Physician prayer and inspiring faith during critical operations improve patient survival. It combines spiritual encouragement with a direct empirical claim about survival rates based on physician prayer.

Only He who reads the heart can know with what trembling and terror many patients consent to an operation under the surgeon's hand. They realize their peril. While they may have confidence in the physician's skill they know that it is not infallible. But as they see the physician bowed in prayer, asking help from God, they are inspired with confidence. Gratitude and trust open the heart to the healing power of God, the energies of the whole being are vitalized, and the life forces triumph.

Patient gratitude and trust inspired by prayer facilitate physical healing and vitalize life forces. It blends spiritual themes with an assertion that emotional and spiritual trust directly impacts bodily healing forces.