Prayer no plus in heart surgery

A rigorous clinical study has determined that prayer does not improve the statistics in heart surgery. I think prayer gets a bad rap because people have fairy-tale ideas of how it works. Prayer is not a magic way to influence events you have no control over. Rather prayer is a way that you can prepare yourself to deal with the circumstances life hands you. Prayer can prepare you to capitalize on favorable circumstances better and mitigate unfavorable ones. Prayer affects the person doing the praying and it only has an affect if that person "puts feet on the prayer" and actually does something.