Statistics and Us

Rabbi L. of Flatbush has a granddaughter in a coma (may she have a refuah shleima).  He reported that the doctor was asked what her prognosis is. 

The answer wasn't positive but the doctor added: You never know, with you people things are different.

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It's one thing for us to hear that in a shiur or read it, and another thing when someone in the field, apparently not Jewish, says it!