Faith and science join forces in a new book that challenges the secular orthodoxy of modern medicine.

Dr. Marc Siegel, a senior medical analyst for Fox News, has published "The Miracles Among Us," a compilation of real-life medical recoveries that, by many accounts, defy conventional scientific explanation and suggest a deeper force at work, as Fox News reports.

In a culture where even the mention of faith often sends academic institutions into a panic, Siegel dares to suggest something few dare to voice: that belief, prayer, and spiritual healing can matter as much as prescriptions and procedures.

Doctor Highlights Stories That Defy Medical Logic

The book focuses on accounts of individuals who experienced stunning turnarounds, from patients emerging from comas to children surviving against the odds—all pointing to events that the clinical textbooks don’t tend to cover.

Among these is the story titled “The Rebbe,” featuring a carpenter with three children, the youngest of whom suffered from a mysterious medical condition that took an unexpected spiritual turn toward diagnosis.

On the rabbi’s advice, the family checked the mezuzah affixed to their door, only to discover a broken ornament shaped like a heart. That unusual object sparked the rabbi to recommend a medical evaluation—one which revealed a hole in the child’s heart.

Surgery Sparks Deeper Reflection About Faith and Healing

Too young for surgery at the time, the child was denied the procedure. But after a cardiac arrest threatened his life, doctors had no choice but to operate—an intervention that ultimately saved him.

Dr. Siegel credits the rabbi’s intuition as more than a coincidence. “God is found in coincidences, he’s found in visions, he’s found in dreams, he’s found in angels... and unexpected recoveries,” Siegel stated, reinforcing his message that miracles and clinical care are not mutually exclusive.

Siegel makes it clear he’s not interested in replacing science with spirituality—rather, he wants doctors and patients alike to expand their toolkits to include the power of belief and prayer.

Legacy of His Parents Inspired Life-Affirming Message

Siegel’s personal inspiration comes from his own parents, who lived to be 100 and 102, respectively. He highlighted their love and the compassionate work of their physicians as key factors in their longevity.

“They were bound together by love; they didn’t want to leave the other alone,” he said, describing their partnership as a life-affirming source of strength.

Still, he credited the role of doctors, too. “Physicians participated in keeping them alive and keeping them going down a lane to survival rather than saying they're too old,” Siegel said, rejecting the ageist defeatism that too often infects institutional medicine today.

Siegel Challenges Physicians to Embrace More Than Data

More than 70% of doctors reportedly believe in religion and miracles, according to Siegel. However, he points out a troubling disconnect: “They don't always apply those beliefs to their patients and to their practices, and I want them to.”

That gap between belief and action stands at the heart of his book’s message. In our current era of algorithm-driven diagnostics and sterile bureaucracy, healthcare is in desperate need of humanity once again.

Siegel is not asking anyone to abandon evidence-based care—but he is calling for a gut check on whether we’ve lost the soul of medicine in favor of standardization and control.

Message Aims to Heal a Stressed Society

“I want people to be inspired that they're going to find miracles in their own lives,” Siegel said. “That there are miracles among us, that we all have a miracle to tell.” His call is especially timely in a world weighed down by increasing anxiety and societal division.

Americans are coping with more than just physical ailments. Emotional fatigue, spiritual drift, and cultural breakdown are taking their toll—and Siegel’s book taps directly into a longing for hope that so many quietly carry.

“We need this now. We need healing prayers,” he said. For a nation that once turned to faith in times of hardship, that's not regressive—it's restorative.