Posted on 02/20/2008 6:00:49 AM PST by NYer
Is it a medical mystery or a miracle? A South Florida man pronounced dead from a massive heart attack and then brought back to life. His doctor says the man was raised from the dead by a simple prayer. Seven's Louis Aguirre has the story.
WSVN -- Dr. Chauncey Crandall isn't your usual doctor. The world-renowned cardiologist is a man of medicine and science, but he's also a man of faith.
Dr. Chauncey Crandall: "If you come in with a problem into our service, we are definitely going to treat you with conventional medicine, but we are going to believe it too. We are going to attack it with conventional medicine, and we are going to attack it with prayer."
He calls himself the Christian physician because he prays with each heart patient he sees at his Palm Beach practice. The difference, he says, is dramatic.
Dr. Chauncey Crandall: "The reason I pray for people is because I found, early in my trained practice, that there were miracles, unexplained healings."
But even his strong faith could not prepare him for what would happen the day Jeff Markin walked into the Palm Beach Gardens emergency room.
Jeff Markin: "I drove to the Garden's Hospital, went in, took out my wallet and fell on the floor with a massive heart attack."
For 40 minutes doctors and nurses in the ER tried to revive him. When they couldn't get his heart started again they called for Dr. Crandall, who was doing rounds in the hospital at the time.
Dr. Chauncey Crandall: "As I entered the ER it was like a war zone. Here was this lifeless body on a stretcher."
The doctor couldn't do anything and could only confirm what everyone already knew, Jeff was dead. He had gone almost an hour without a heartbeat, and his body was starting to decompose.
Dr. Chauncey Crandall: "His face, his arms, his legs were pitch black with death. I said, 'Let's just call the code, let's end it because there's no life left.'"
As Dr. Crandall turned to leave, he says he got another call this time, a call from God to pray.
Dr. Chauncey Crandall: "A voice told me to turn around and pray for that man. I looked down at the body, and I said, 'Lord, what can I pray for this man? He's gone.' All of a sudden these words came out, 'Father, I cry out for this man's soul, if he does not know, you raise him from the dead.'"
Despite protests from doctors and nurses who were preparing Jeff's body for the morgue, doctor Crandall insisted they shock him one more time.
Dr. Chauncey Crandall: "So that doctor came over with those paddles and blasted that man and, all of a sudden, instantly a perfect heartbeat came up on the monitor. The stomach started moving, the chest started moving. This man started breathing on his own, and I said, 'This man has been prayed for, he has been brought back from the dead by prayer in the name of Jesus.'"
Louis Aguirre: "So where was Jeff during all of this? He believes he left his body and crossed over to the after life."
Jeff Markin: "I was actually standing in the back of the funeral home, and I came to realize that this was my funeral.
But, in the middle of sitting alone in darkness, Jeff says a figure suddenly appeared to him.
Jeff Markin: "There was a figure that identified himself as Bob, and he was going to make sure that everything was going to be OK. I'm figuring that was my guardian angel. At that time, a very peaceful feeling and very relaxed feeling came over me, and then he said he had to go and, the next thing I know, I woke up in my daughter's arms."
He woke up to a second chance, one that can't be explained by medicine or science. As Dr. Crandall puts it, the only answer is divine intervention.
Dr. Chauncey Crandall: "You are speaking to a scientist, a cardiologist, someone who loves medicine. I've never, ever seen this. There are always people that do not believe these events, and I will just tell them that it did happen. It was a real story, a real life that was restored."
Jeff wasn't exactly a believer before that day. He didn't regularly attend church or read the Bible, but this experience has made him believe there is a higher purpose for his life.
Jeff Markin: "I feel like maybe I am supposed to be a messenger. I want to get the right message across that miracles do happen."
A miracle that brought him life after death.
Jeff Markin: "I'm so happy I have a second chance."
Louis Aguirre: "Jeff says he is now attending church mainly because he wants to figure out why he was chosen for a second chance at life."
Good morning!
A good Bob day.
Doesn’t the Constitution outline the concept of “Separation of Church and Medicine”? /s
Sounds to me like he was in Hell’s anteroom, and Our Lord came and got him.
Also, I think the media slugs messed up the punctuation. Shouldn’t it be, “Father, I cry out for this man’s soul. If he does not know you, raise him from the dead?”
In important matters, especially those concerning life and death, there are no coincidences.
It was not coincidence that Dr. Chauncey Crandall was there at that time. It was Gods leading.
Thanks. Much appreciated.
There are more of these than most people think, imho.
And Quix, years back I did know a man who "came back" --- his name was John Hartsil. He said he was in the hospital for a stroke and the last thing he remembers hearing was a nurse telling another nurse something like, "Oh, 2.5 mg? OMG, I just gave him 25 mg." (He thinks it was a medication error.)
Next thing he knew, he was up near the fluorescent ceiling lights, looked down and "saw" his body lying in the hospital bed; and then he was in that famous long dark tunnel, cold, no sound, no light, but traveling; and then he saw a 'being of light,' and felt he was being 'examined' by someone's eyes (though he couldn't see the face of the being).
He was told he was going back to earth, which he said made him feel somewhat crestfallen. And then he was back in the body, with the nurses saying "I think he's gone"--- someone was raising his eyelids with their thumbs, and he brushed her hand away and said "Cut that out, honey. I'm back."
At the time I knew him, he was still somewhat mobility-disabled (from the stroke) but volunteered to help the nuns at St. Benedict's Daycare. Mainly it was just a matter of sitting at the picnic table and holding little kids on his lap. Smiling.
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In 1946, my then-infant mother fell out of my late grandmother’s arms while the two of them were being driven into town by my late grandfather in a buckboard. My mom’s little body hit the dirt road, rolled under the buckboard, and was run over. My late grandmother jumped from the still-moving wagon, dashed to my mom’s lifeless, blue body, and begged God for a miracle. As she prayed, my mother coughed and began to breathe again.
God sometimes allows innocent children to die, for reasons we cannot know. Other times He restores dead children to life. Again, the reason is beyond our ken.
True story.
Something to keep in mind when terrible things happen: when the little girl's eyes are destroyed, when the tornado goes right into the school, when the cancer "in remission" comes roaring back, when the baby dies.
James 5:16 pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
May God bless this doctor.
What a story. A little bit more dramatic than mine!
“Dr. Chauncey Crandall isn’t your usual doctor.”
Actually from what I’ve read lately, it’s NOT unusual. Many doctors are just like many of us - they are religious at least to some basic degree.
Heck, I’m a logic-based person, an engineer, and yet I believe. I see no reason that there are things beyond our ken, that will always be. Indeed, I always wonder how could life have possibly started, or why are so many things in science so beautifully “predictable” and describable?
Beautiful. What a precious case.
Thanks.
I agree.
Also, I think the media slugs messed up the punctuation.
Yes ... big time!
Dr. Crandall claims that he has been involved with two other such cases.
He gave a presentation of this particular case at the 4th Annual World Christian Doctors Network conference in Miami, Florida on July 15, 2007.
Here is a link to the video clip of that presentation.
Here is a link to an interview he did after the presentation. It gives more detail to this story.
This is a clip from that story:
-snip- “We quickly rushed the gentleman down to the intensive care unit, and the hospital was by now buzzing about the fact that a dead man had been brought back to life. After a couple of days he woke up. He had an amazing story to tell after I had asked him, ‘Where have you been and where were you on that day that you had that massive heart attack? You were gone and we prayed you back to life in Jesus name.’
Thrown in the trash
“He said, ‘Doctor Crandall, it’s the most amazing thing. I was in a dark room and there was no light. It was complete darkness and I felt I was in a casket and I kept repeating that I was so disappointed.’ He said the disappointment came from the fact that none of his family, friends or colleagues, had come to visit him. Then he told me, ‘All of a sudden, these men came in and they wrapped me up and they threw me in the trash.’
“Dan, he was in hell that day and as he told me that story, I cried out, ‘Lord, this gentleman needs to accept You as Lord and Savior.’ I then explained the salvation message to this man as he sat in that bed and I held his hand and I cried out, ‘Father God, in the name of Jesus, I pray that this man accepts you as his Lord and Savior right here in the intensive care unit.’ He held out his hand and accepted Christ as his Savior with tears rolling down from his eyes and now he’s a child of God.
“I told him, ‘You never have to be thrown in the trash into total darkness now. The life of Christ is in you and the light of the kingdom of Heaven is on you now.”
/tears
AMEN! AMEN! AMEN!
THX
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