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1.I choose to think outside the box by choosing not to choose either door, because treatment of a cancer should not be an either-or proposition: we need both the competent care and the benefit of prayer. The two go hand in hand.2.On the other hand, so what if the doctor in question is an atheist, and a murderer of unborn children (an assumptionGod can still use this atheist doctor as a tool for the healing of His children: think of God's use of Darius, Nebuchadneezer, and the king of Syria for and against the children of Israel after they disobeyed, and those men and nations were out and out pagans. God still used them, just like He can stil use the doctor. (The unworthiness of the minister hinderth not the nature of the sacrament, as the Articles of Religion say) The doctor is still responsible to God for his own actions.3. Even then, there is no guarantee of a successful treatment through either approach. In the end our lives are in God's hands, not that of physiciaans, religious leaders, or even ourselves.