Special: Mind Over Body Cure

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Society & Culture

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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From October 17, 1988: Do we have the ability to think ourselves well? A panel of doctors and patients debate mind over body cures and share their personal stories of healing through medical and non-medical means. Guests include Dr. Bernie Siegel, pediatric surgeon and author of New York Times #1 Bestseller, Love, Medicine and Miracles; Dr. Sherwin Nuland, author of Doctors: The Biography of Medicine and Orthodox Rabbi Benjamin Blech. Dr. Sherwin Nuland passed away in 2014 from prostate cancer.

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0:00.0	Through 25 seasons, 4,561 episodes.
0:05.0	I believe the Oprah Winfrey show
0:08.0	was one of the greatest classrooms in the world.
0:10.0	I really never thought of it that one.
0:12.0	The aha moments, the breakthroughs, the connections,
0:16.0	the occasional ugly cry.
0:18.0	I'm missing so terribly, I miss it every single minute.
0:21.6	The LOLs.
0:22.6	The moments that mattered.
0:24.6	The eye-opening life lessons.
0:27.6	Never allow them to take you somewhere else.
0:30.6	I'm bringing them back.
0:32.6	It's time to open the vault.
0:34.6	I've personally chosen these classic episodes to share with you again.
0:40.2	Every single person you ever will meet shares that common desire.
0:44.8	They want to know, do you see me? Do you hear me?
0:49.1	Does what I say mean anything to you?
0:52.6	You are listening to the Oprah Winfrey Show, the podcast.
0:57.0	Well, we've heard quite a few people on this show and others claim that they have thought themselves well even in the face of death.
1:07.0	But what about those people who do get sick and do get worse and die? Are they being
1:13.3	made to feel guilty for not thinking themselves well? Well, my guest today are on opposite sides
1:18.8	of this mind over body debate. Doctors don't know why my first guest is alive. Leonard
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