Science vs. Faith: One Doctor's Change of Heart

A Leap of Faith

By Kent Sepkowitz
O, The Oprah Magazine | From the November 2008 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine

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As a physician, Kent Sepkowitz is a rational man of science. But a question posed by a patient's mother revealed that science isn't everything.

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