Sid: My guest Dr. Reggie Anderson has spent 25 years in Family Practice Emergency Room. He’s Chief of Staff at TriStar Ashland City Medical Center in Tennessee. He’s an award winning doctor and he has held hands with 100’s of people just before they take their last breath. Dr. Anderson you talk about something called parting of the veil. What does that mean?
Dr. Anderson: Well I feel like when God comes to find us in our last few breathes that the veil pulls back and heaven actually pours into the room with us at that moment. And it’s a very special holy moment.
Sid: Pick one of the people that you were holding hands with when this happened and tell me about them.
Dr. Anderson: Well I was actually a lady that I’d been treating for diabetes and high blood pressure for many years. She came in complaining of chest pain and so I admitted her to the hospital and diagnosed that she was having a hurt attack and I told her that we needed to send her to the cardiologist. And have a heart cath and enter in and so we sent her in and about four or five hours later the cardiologist called me and I was fully expecting him to give me a report of how successful of everything had been. But instead he told me that Eunice had actually died on the table and I was very sad at the moment when he had sad that because she had been a special lady and I wasn’t able to be at the moment of her death, and I wasn’t there I wasn’t there I was at another facility. But he went on to tell me that instead of her dying actually they did CPR and had actually quit but he had a resident that was working with him that wanted to practice for another hour his CPR techniques. And after 2 hours of CPR she actually started breathing and…
Sid: Now how many hours was she dead?
Dr. Anderson: Two hours.
Sid: Now when you’re saying as a Medical Doctor she was dead it that a fact she really was dead?
Dr. Anderson: Yeah, the Cardiologist said she had no heartbeat accept for the chest compression she had no blood circulating on her own. They were doing complete CPR had intubated her were breathing for her and if at any moment they had stopped during that process there would be no return.
Sid: So why did they continue as long as they did?
Dr. Anderson: Well like I said the resident wanted to practice some of the techniques of doing CPR. So the attending agreed that he could continue the process beyond the first you know the first 45 minutes to an hours in which they had attempted to revive her.
Sid: Okay, she’s in this vegetative state so to speak; nothing could be done medically; he’s experimenting as you said to get practice and what happens?
Dr. Anderson: Well he heart starts beating and they move her to the ICU and she’s on a ventilator overnight and he called me and said that “He wasn’t really expecting her to come back; that he felt like she would be brain dead if she did have any sort of… actually wanted to know if she had left a living-will about organ donation.” But the next morning I was expecting them to give me a report that she had actually died but instead they called me from the ICU and said that she had woke up and they had taken her off of the ventilator. One of the first things that she wanted to do is to have me to come to her bedside. So I drove into Nashville to this other hospital with my wife and I walked into the ICU and walked up to her bedside and she looked up at me and she says “I have to tell you the most wonderful experience.”
Sid: Before you tell me that as a doctor I must ask you this; Is there any possible medical explanation as to why she was alive? Anything?
Dr. Anderson: None; as a doctor I would have never in all of my medical training I would have said that she was gone; you know but for whatever reason. Well I consider it a miracle that she woke up the next morning.
Sid: Well what did she say when you met her?
Dr. Anderson: She said “Dr. Anderson I have something to tell you.”
Sid: By the way you as a doctor you observe things; what did she look like when she said that to you?
Dr. Anderson: She was glowing and radiant; she was back to her normal. I mean she was elderly and she was frail but…
Sid: She should have been in the dirt you know; she was glowing?
Dr. Anderson: Yeah and she was vibrant; I was shocked by how well she looked; it was as well as she ever looked in my knowledge of seeing her over the years.
Sid: Now what did she tell you? Did she have any remembrance of what happened when she was dead?
Dr. Anderson: She did she actually told me that she had been there with Jesus and that she had been with her family and she wanted to stay there but Jesus told her that He wanted her to come back and she had a few things that He wanted her to do. And one of them was to talk to me.
Sid: To you, what did Jesus want her to tell you?
Dr. Anderson: Well at the time we had four children and we were living in a very rural area and had considered moving to another city so that our children would have better educational opportunities. So we had been in prayer about that for several months, but this lady didn’t know that. But she said “I don’t know why Jesus wants me to tell you but you need to stay right where you are doing right what you’re doing.” And I said “Okay.” And that was my answer to that prayer.
Sid: Now I’ve heard of prophetic words but this is off the charts Reggie.
Dr. Anderson: I know I was somewhat taken aback by it but I did know that God had used her to help us stay where we were.
Sid: And did she say anything about her experience in Heaven that was similar to yours?
Dr. Anderson: It was I mean she said that “It was the greenest green and the brightest bright lights. I mean the colors were so vibrant that it almost hurt your eyes and I could totally understand that.
Sid: Now you’ve also been with people that have died and have not gone to heaven. For instance tell me about Eddie.
Dr. Anderson: He lived a very hard life; he constantly was in and out of bars and bar fights, and abused his family both physically and verbally and sexually. The only time I encountered him mostly was in the emergency room stitching him up from another fight. So I knew that his life was not a very good spiritual life. And so when one moment he came in, and this is a gentleman that I had seen off and on for years. But he came in they called 911 gunshot wound to the head and he had attempted suicide. I was thinking that he was going to die but instead he came back and was in rehab trying to get fixed from his gunshot wound to his head. I saw him a few months later in the office and instead of this mean cruel man he actually turned his life back around and was very appreciative. He said that God had met him that night in the emergency room.
Sid: What did he see, what did he tell you he saw?
Dr. Anderson: He said that he saw horrible things that he did not want to be a part of and that he turned his life back around; and that he knew that God had given him a second chance. And from that moment on he has been nothing but the most pleasant guy like night and day like a light had come on in his head.
Sid: When he told you this story you smelled something, what was that?
Dr. Anderson: Yeah, I mean initially in the emergency room I smelled almost like a sulfa and burning sensation.
Sid: Had you ever smelt that before?
Dr. Anderson: There was one other situation earlier where a gentleman of similar character was dying of cancer and he did not want us to do anything to revive him and he said that “All he wanted was for us to you know work on his cancer and to take care of his pain.” But as he was talking his last breath it was if evil had entered that room and so I had smelled that same sensation earlier.
Sid: So you can tell whether someone’s going to heaven or hell by what’s going on with your senses.
Dr. Anderson: Oh yeah.
Sid: I’ll tell you what we’re out of time right now…
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Tags: its supernatural, Sid Roth