A job like this would make for very interesting days, I think. From The Australian:
LOURDES: French doctor Patrick Theillier is not your run-of-the-mill physician — instead of diagnosing common colds and stomach ailments, he spends his days separating miracles from myth.
Theillier is in charge of the Catholic church's medical bureau in Lourdes, the "miracle" town in southwest France visited each year by hundreds of thousands of pilgrims who pray for a cure from its blessed spring water.
This weekend, Pope John Paul II will make his second visit to Lourdes, where 14-year-old Bernadette Soubirous saw apparitions of the Virgin Mary in 1858 and then discovered the holy spring.
"My primary task is to differentiate between illusion and reality, to listen to the description of a physical, psychological or spiritual experience," the 60-year-old Theillier says.
"It's always a moving process worthy of respect, even if people sometimes make mistakes," he adds. [continue]
Related:
Bernadette Soubirous - Wikipedia