Miracles We Have Seen America's Leading Physician's Share Stories They Can't Forget by Harley A. Rotbart, MD

First, I want to thank Harley A. Rotbart, MD., Health Communications, Inc and NetGalley for providing me with this book so I may bring you this review.

Miracles We Have Seen by Harley A. Rotbart, MD was a very unique book that will touch your heart, educate you, blow you away with some of the stories, will show you what medical “miracles” look like and uplift you. All these stories in the book are true accounts from pediatricians, internists, surgeons, family medicine specialists, emergency medicine physicians, obstetricians, psychiatrists and sub-specialists.

Harley thanks 74 Doctors that contributed stories to this book. He also acknowledges a list of people whom helped him with everything to individual essays. 

I absolutely loved this book, the medical stories, and the human patient care side of the stories as well. I found each story to be fascinating. I have two favorite stories that stuck out to me and touched me in one way or another. 

The first one was An Unlikely Discovery by the Unlikeliest Person. This story was told in three different parts in three different perspectives. They were the Student, The Teacher, and The Surgeon. Ryan the student was working on a test patient Jim whom was to pretend he had an abdominal aortic aneurysm. In this section I was educate what exactly what this was. He played the part well or so Ryan thought. He made the diagnosis that this patent really did have one. The Teacher didn’t believe him at first but it turns out he was right. Ryan got high praise write up online and in the newspaper for it. In fact the links are In the bio. If Jim was not there that day this would have never been diagnosed and he could have died at home. 

The other story that touched my heart was the Impossible Delivery. This one really pulled on my heart strings big time! Since New Year’s Eve Karen felt something strange with some light bleeding. She had not had her period in 5 years but had a history of uterine fibroid. In the past she had an uterine artery embolization. Unfortunately, this procedure made her infertile. Imagine their surprise when they found out they were 7 months pregnant!! However, she had placenta accrete. If you want to know what happened to the Mom and baby you will have go read the book.