Allan J Hamilton May 30, 2008

Allan J. Hamilton, who, after beginning his working life as a janitor, attended Harvard Medical School and became the chief of neurosurgery and chair of the department of surgery at the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center. His memoir, 'Scalpel and the Soul: Encounters with Surgery, the Supernatural, and the Healing Power of Hope,' based on over thirty years in practice, is a frank look at unexplainable phenomena that must be taken seriously is healing is to take place.