Can Prayer Heal?

A physician traces the impact of spirituality in patient outcomes

Amitha Kalaichandran
Elemental
Published in
6 min readMar 24, 2021

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Photo: Diana Simumpande/Unsplash

On the last day of January, my Twitter feed lit up with a curious and heartfelt call: “Please. Please. Please. Everyone PRAY for my daughter Molly. She has been in an accident and suffered a brain trauma. She’s unconscious in the ICU. Please RT and PRAY.”

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Amitha Kalaichandran
Elemental

A physician, epidemiologist, medical journalist, and health tech consultant with an interest in the intersection of integrative medicine and innovation.