toledo, I am so, so sorry for you and your friend and the whole situation.
If this isn’t a sign that we need better science education in this country, I don’t know what is.
It also blows my mind that many people are so willing to believe that god has a plan for everything but refuse to believe that (s)he couldn’t be making modern medicine, doctors, nurses, hospitals, etc as part of that plan.
(I don’t want to get into a religious debate. I am an atheist and it is something I don’t understand. It was just a response to a line in toledo’s link.)