--February 15, 1921. New York City. The operating room of the Kane Summit Hospital. A doctor is performing an appendectomy.
-In many ways the events leading to the surgery are uneventful. The patient has complained of severe abdominal pain. The diagnosis is clear: an inflamed appendix. Dr. Evan O'Neill Kane is performing the surgery. In his distinguished thirty-seven-year medical career, he has performed nearly four thousand appendectomies, so this surgery will be uneventful in all ways except two...The first novelty of this operation? The use of local anesthesia in major surgery...The second is the patient. The courageous candidate for surgery by Dr. Kane was Dr. Kane.
To prove his point, Dr. Kane operated on himself!
A wise move. The doctor became a patient in order to convince the patients to trust the doctor.
...The story of the doctor who became his own patient is mild compared to the story of the God who became human. But Jesus did. So that you and I would believe that the Healer knows our hurts. He voluntarily became one of us. He placed Himself in our position. He suffered our pains and felt our fears.
Rejection? He felt it. Temptation? He knew it. Loneliness? He experienced it. Death? He tasted it.
And stress? He could write a best-selling book about it. Why did He do it? One reason. So that when you hurt you will go to Him--your Father and your Physician--and let Him heal your wounds.
