[UA] Medicine and Religion

[Mark Fender]

>It's about a child who miraculously recovers from a terrible illness.
The plot requires that the child can't be examined by doctors, so I was
toying with making the parents members of some religious sect with
strong prejudices against modern medicine.

>Now, how much sense does this? I know there are sects whose beliefs
forbid certain types of medical intervention, but can somebody provide a
real world example? It would be easier for me if I have a start point.

Seventh Day Adventists have such beliefs. I've heard horror stories of 
Adventists dying of problems that are easily fixed with medication, but 
they could just be horror stories. I don't know how strict modern ones are 
on that tenet. 

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