VERITAS by Mel Scott Kolbaba, MD | The Quiet Proof: The Miracles Doctors Keep to Themselves | Part 1 of 2
Oct 24, 2025
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Tonight on Veritas, our special guest is Dr. Scott Kolbaba. He is a physician who has spent a lifetime balancing science and mystery. Every day he walks into hospital rooms filled with the hum of machines, the steady rhythm of monitors, and the fragile trust of people who want answers.
But medicine, for all its charts and precision, leaves space for what no one can measure. Moments that refuse to be filed away under coincidence. Moments that doctors remember long after the discharge summary fades.
Dr. Kolbaba began to notice a quiet pattern among his peers. Stories whispered after meetings, in cafeteria corners, and during long drives home from late-night shifts. Stories that carried weight, and sometimes tears. A surgeon who feels guided to act before the data is clear. A patient who speaks of a scene she could not have seen. A doctor who senses a goodbye before the call ever comes.
These were physicians who had seen too much to invent. Men and women who had given their lives to the measurable, yet had been touched by what cannot be graphed. For three years, Dr. Kolbaba listened. He collected their accounts. He studied them with the same care he once gave to x-rays and lab results. And what he found was a record of moments that challenge how we define evidence.
Tonight, we enter that space between the known and the felt. We will ask what these events mean for science, for faith, and for the people who live at their intersection. We will consider whether healing sometimes begins before a doctor even enters the room. And we will listen for the quiet proof that lives where medicine meets mystery.
But medicine, for all its charts and precision, leaves space for what no one can measure. Moments that refuse to be filed away under coincidence. Moments that doctors remember long after the discharge summary fades.
Dr. Kolbaba began to notice a quiet pattern among his peers. Stories whispered after meetings, in cafeteria corners, and during long drives home from late-night shifts. Stories that carried weight, and sometimes tears. A surgeon who feels guided to act before the data is clear. A patient who speaks of a scene she could not have seen. A doctor who senses a goodbye before the call ever comes.
These were physicians who had seen too much to invent. Men and women who had given their lives to the measurable, yet had been touched by what cannot be graphed. For three years, Dr. Kolbaba listened. He collected their accounts. He studied them with the same care he once gave to x-rays and lab results. And what he found was a record of moments that challenge how we define evidence.
Tonight, we enter that space between the known and the felt. We will ask what these events mean for science, for faith, and for the people who live at their intersection. We will consider whether healing sometimes begins before a doctor even enters the room. And we will listen for the quiet proof that lives where medicine meets mystery.