- [Narrator] Do a search on the internet

for prayer and medicine,

and you'll find plenty ofscientific studies that confirm

what the Christian community has known

for thousands of years, that prayer works.

- The anesthesiologistcomes in the room and says,

"Mike, we're not gonna beable to do the surgery."

"Why?" "Cause his bloodpressure's like 220 over one 120.

We can't put someone to sleep

with that kind of blood pressure."

I go, "At least let me prayfor him before you cancel."

He goes, "Okay, fine."

- [Narrator] Dr. MichaelHaglund of Duke University

is considered one of thetop cervical surgeons

in the country.

He also enjoys anotherdistinction, the praying doctor.

- So I go, and I pray for him,

and he calms down a little bit.

It went from 220 down to like 170.

We do his surgery, hedoes great, pains gone,

gets back to work in two weeks.

I see him at six weeks andhe comes in, and he goes,

"You know that prayer you prayed for me?"

And I go, "Yeah."

He goes, "Something changed,something's different."

And so right there inthe clinic, we prayed,

and he accepted Christ, and you know,

that's what it's all about.

- [Narrator] Dr. Haglundremembers the first time

he witnessed the healing power of prayer.

It wasn't long after he and his wife

gave their lives to Christ,

and he was on call at a Seattle hospital.

- A young kid, 10 yearsold, bad snowboard accident,

got air flighted intoHarborview Medical Center,

with a big epidural hematoma on his brain.

If you can get it outquickly, they do really well,

and they wake up right awayafter surgery, which is great,

not like when you'rein a bad car accident.

So we took him to the OR rightaway, and we took it out,

and he didn't wake up,was still in a coma.

So I went to lay down andI couldn't get to sleep,

and I really felt theLord put on my heart.

I've never felt this before,this impression, like,

you need to go, you need to pray for him.

And I go, okay.

So I rolled over in bedand I started praying,

and it was like, no, youneed to go pray for him.

And so I just went up andlaid hands on him and said,

"Lord, you know, we'vedone everything we can do.

We need you to do a miracle, amen."

- [Narrator] 15 Minutes later,

the nurse called him back into the ICU.

After checking on his patient,

Dr. Haglund ran andfound the boy's father,

an associate pastor ofa church in Seattle.

- So I go running out there,it's three in the morning,

and I say, "You won'tbelieve this, Adam's awake."

And I'm grabbing him by theshoulders, and he goes, "What?"

And I go, "Yeah, he'sawake, I prayed for him,

and he woke up"

And he goes, "Mike," and I go, "What?"

He goes, "A lot of peopleare praying for him."

"Oh yeah." He goes, "Look over there."

And he showed me in the waiting room,

you could see theseshadowy little figures.

There was 30 people from hischurch, all on their knees,

praying for him.

I go, "Oh, you're right,

"everybody's prayingfor him, that's good."

And it made such an impression on me,

from then on it's like,

you're just looking foropportunities where God's moving.

- [Narrator] And formore than three decades,

Dr. Haglund's practice andprayers have been changing lives.

But his influence hasreached beyond the bedside.

As a renowned surgeon, Dr.Haglund has not only been able

to talk about prayer with hispeers on a scientific level,

but on a personal spiritual level as well.

Like Kimberly Stanley, apharmaceutical professional,

who met Dr. Haglund ata medical conference.

- I was really actually notwanting to go to this meeting.

I just wanted to be at home,but just really kind of lost,

and just knew that somethingwas missing in my life.

He began to help me connect those dots,

and just putting words tothe Gospel in a conversation,

was just so, so critical for me

that somebody who didn't even know me,

would care to share that truth with me.

It was just, it was life changing,

and I really knew Ineeded to do something.

- [Narrator] What Kimberly did,was give her life to Christ.

- He just led me in aprayer that was very simple.

I can't remember the exact words,

but it was just a very simple prayer.

And I just immediately knew it was right,

and I had heard that as a child.

and so I knew that'swhat had happened to me,

that I had been born again.

I had been saved from death to life.

I think that, that's thesweetness of our Lord

is to send someone thatI could look to and say,

"He believes, he believes."

- [Narrator] As the top in his field,

Dr. Haglund is well aware of the millions

who've been helped throughmodern medical science.

- "Lord, we thank youfor your presence here."

- He also knows that it's theundeniable power of prayer

that truly changes lives.

- Once you see how much God moves,

you build that faith that he'sthere, and he's ever present,

and he's walking through life with you,

and you don't realizehow many things he does,

till you kinda look back a little bit,

and I think that builds your faith, right.