A Doctor’s Book Explores the Role of Miracles in Healing

In a new book, Dr. Marc Siegel shares 25 stories of 'soft miracles' he believes guide healing, blending spirituality, medicine, and moments that he says defy human understanding.

Juliette Fairley

Published: 11/28/2025, 2:26:35 AM EST

A Doctor’s Book Explores the Role of Miracles in Healing — A young woman experiences the peace of a forest. (Maxbelchenko/Shutterstock)

Miracle lane is a fictional place often mentioned in Christmas movies, but Fox News senior medical analyst Dr. Marc Siegel says he’s seen evidence that there is an actual path of "soft miracles" that can be activated in people’s lives.

In "The Miracles Among Us: How God's Grace Plays a Role in Healing," Siegel wrote a book consisting of up to 25 stories in 16 chapters that discuss moments of grace that exceed the capacity of human or medical intervention.

“I view it as a compilation of miracles,” Siegel said on "The Strategerist" podcast hosted by Andrew Kaufmann at the George W. Bush Presidential Center. “I don't think of it in terms of a single miracle. It's why I call them soft miracles in the book or a miracle lane.”

Siegel is a practicing internist and NYU Langone Health clinical professor. His book, published by Harper Influence, was released on Nov. 18.

“God chooses the miracles he wants us to have, not always the ones we're asking for,” Siegel said. "God likes humble people ... people who are humble."

He recommends not distinguishing between technology and God because synchronicity is often present between the two.

“Sometimes, you're surfing along, and you get cured just by the technology just when it happens to happen,” he said. “I have a patient named Dick who's survived four cancers. Each time, it's with a technology that just came around.”

The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines a miracle as a spiritual event, thing, or accomplishment that is beyond human comprehension.

Nearly 80 percent of Americans believe in a spirit world beyond the natural, including 93 percent of Mormons, 92 percent of Protestants, 86 percent of Catholics, 77 percent of Orthodox Christians, 80 percent of Muslims, 70 percent of Buddhists, 69 percent of Hindus, and 60 percent of Jews, according to a February Pew Research Center Religious Landscape Study.

But Siegel believes religion doesn’t matter when it comes to miracles in medicine.

“Whatever religion you believe in, whatever you think is going on there, everybody hearing this has to say that this is beyond my ability to comprehend how that happened to happen just that way,” he said.

For example, healing is physical and spiritual for Siegel, who said that he began biking late in life.

“Mountain biking is really, really great,” he said. “It's grueling. It's difficult. It's a little bit on the dangerous side because you can fall and get hurt, but it is a really tremendous sport, and communing through sports is a way of healing.”