The Doctor said!

Rom 8:11
But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

"The doctor says" , "the Bible says",  and we believe the doctor.

Pro 18:21
Death and life [are] in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

We speak death, the doctor speaks death, we believe the doctor and what will be the result?

We speak illness, the doctor speaks illness, we believe in our illness, and what will be the result?

We see ourselves as being ill, we read and hear the things that tell us the symptoms of the illness, we believe in the things we read. We speak the things we believe and read, we  hear ourselves and others speaking the things we read and believe, we agree and believe, and what will be the result?

Is the doctor the "final say" and is there no alternative?

What else does the Bible say?

1 Peter 2:24
Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.

Psalm 107:20
He sent his word (Jesus), and healed them, and delivered [them] from their destructions.

Deuteronomy 28:1-14

1. And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe [and] to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: 2. And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God. 3. Blessed [shalt] thou [be] in the city, and blessed [shalt] thou [be] in the field. 4. Blessed [shall be] the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. 5. Blessed [shall be] thy basket and thy store. 6. Blessed [shalt] thou [be] when thou comest in, and blessed [shalt] thou [be] when thou goest out. 7. The Lord shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways. 8. The Lord shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. 9. The Lord shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways. 10. And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the Lord; and they shall be afraid of thee. 11. And the Lord shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers to give thee. 12. The Lord shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow. 13. And the Lord shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the Lord thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do [them]: 14. And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, [to] the right hand, or [to] the left, to go after other gods to serve them.

What it all comes down to is:

What does a person want? What does a person place value on? We shall be living with God for all eternity if we are a believer. The rewards we reap in heaven are governed by the seeds we sow during this earthly life. Are we going to face the Lord and tell Him we just could not spend time in the Word because we were sick? The Lord will reply, "I took that sickness in my body on the cross so you would not have to bear it".

Is what the doctor said a believers reality? 

Is the Bible, the Word of God, what God said, a believers reality? 

What do we place value on? Whose word is the most valuable and worthy of believing?