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Doctor’s Describes Extraordinary Encounters with Afterlife
as He Attends Dying Patients
Tyndale Momentum Releases Autobiography of “Midwife to Souls”
[Carol Stream, IL]—When Dr. Reggie Anderson of Kingston Springs, Tennessee,
is present at the bedside of a dying patient, something unusual happens.
Sometimes as Dr. Anderson sits vigil, holding his patient’s hand, he is able to
experience what they see and feel during their final moments on earth. According
to this award-winning country doctor, the news from the next world is very good
indeed.
The physician known as a “midwife to souls” shares glimpses of the afterlife in
his autobiography, Appointments with Heaven, now available from Tyndale Momentum. Books about
heaven by those who claim to have been there have populated the bestseller lists for years, but
Reggie Anderson has had no near-death experiences of his own. Instead he has attended countless
patients in their last moments and in the process says he has glimpsed eternity.
Anderson is a medical doctor, not a chaplain, and until now has mostly kept his visions to himself.
“On many occasions,” states Anderson, “God has allowed me to peer into heaven’s entryway, where
I watched my patients slip into the next world. I’ve glimpsed colors, sights, and sounds more intense
than anything I’ve ever experienced in this world. I’ve inhaled the scents of lilac and citrus, freshly
carved cedar, and the aroma of baking bread.
“Sometimes I’ve even witnessed patients leave this world and come back,” he comments. “They’ve
shared their stories with me and reminded me of an experience I had where God allowed me to step
into heaven’s foyer when I didn’t even believe he was real.”
With more than 25 years of emergency room and family practice experience, Anderson has been
exposed to nearly every kind of death possible, including murders, suicides, death from old age, and
babies who died at birth. As a teenager, he endured the horrific massacre of six members of his
extended family by escaped criminals, leading Anderson to reject the faith in which he was raised and
begin his medical studies as an atheist.
More recently, Anderson and his wife, Karen, were among the first to respond when Grammy
Award–winning musician Steven Curtis Chapman’s five-year-old daughter, Maria, was tragically killed
in a freak accident in the Chapmans’ driveway. The Anderson farm became a place of solace and
healing for the Chapman family, whose son Caleb is married to Anderson’s daughter Julia.
“I’ve had to face some hard questions in my personal life and my medical practice,” Anderson writes
today. “Is there more to life than what we’ve experienced? What kind of God would allow such
atrocities to happen to those who loved and served him? Do I believe enough in the reality of heaven
to let it change me?”
Reggie Anderson, MD, is available for national interviews to promote the September 2013 release of
Appointments with Heaven. Contact Maggie Rowe at [email protected] or (630) 784-5333 to
schedule an interview, to obtain an excerpt of the book, or to learn more.
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Appointments with Heaven
Reggie Anderson with Jennifer Schuchmann
ISBN 978-1-4143-8045-2
Autobiography/Inspiration
US $15.99
Releases: September 2013
About the Author
Dr. Reggie Anderson has practiced family medicine for over 25 years and recently was
awarded The Frist Humanitarian Award by the Centennial Medical Center in Nashville. A
graduate of the University of Alabama Medical School, Reggie is a physician with the Frist
Clinic. He also serves as chief of staff of TriStar Ashland City Medical Center, as well as the
medical director of three nursing homes. Reggie and his wife, Karen, have four adult
children and reside on a farm in Kingston Springs, TN.
Topics/Segment Ideas for Dr. Reggie Anderson
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The smells and sensations of heaven: eyewitness description by a physician who
has walked dying patients to the door of the next life
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Experiences of the afterlife glimpsed on the other side
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How a doctor who began his medical studies as an atheist turned toward faith due
to an unusual glimpse of heaven
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Ability of an award-winning doctor to sense things about his patients when
touching them (his hands change temperature) that makes a “sixth sense”
diagnosis possible
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How doctors “die differently”
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Where is God in tragedy and times of natural disaster?
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Misconceptions about DNR and advance directives: benefits of talking about
death with family members
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Former patients who can testify to supernatural experiences when attended by Dr.
Anderson
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What should we do when we are angry with God? (Dr. Anderson’s experience
with several tragic deaths, including the massacre of six family members by
escaped convicts and his experience as family doctor and close friend to the
Steven Curtis Chapman family)
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A new view of death, seeing it not as the failure of medical science but as the
victory of the soul
Media Questions for Reggie Anderson, M.D.
Author of Appointments with Heaven
1. Dr. Anderson, you have had some unusual experiences when you’ve been present
at the bedside of dying patients. Tell us about those.
2. In your memoir Appointments with Heaven, you mention sensing specific scents
such as lilac, citrus, cedar, and the aroma of baking bread. What do you think
those fragrances signify?
3. Why do you think you’ve been given the opportunity to sense what your dying
patients do, and why don’t hospice personnel have these same experiences?
4. In your book you state that you began your medical studies as an atheist. What
happened when you were a teenager that turned you against faith in God?
5. Have you worked with patients who have had NDE (Near Death Experiences)?
Do you hear any consistency in the stories they share with you when they are
revived?
6. Some of our listeners/viewers will understandably react with skepticism to what
you’re sharing with us. What do you have to say to them?
7. You and your wife, Karen, are not only close friends with Grammy Awardwinning artist Steven Curtis Chapman and his wife, Marybeth, but you are part of
their extended family. How did you respond when their daughter Maria suffered a
fatal accident in their driveway in 2008?
8. In Appointments with Heaven, you claim that “doctors die differently.” How so,
and why do you think physicians face death with a different mindset than their
patients?
9. You have also said that death is not necessarily the failure of medical science but
“the victory of the soul.” Please explain what you mean by that.
10. Based on your experiences, what are some of the misconceptions people have
about DNR orders and advance directives? Why do we need to demystify the
necessity of patients talking about their impending death with family members?
11. If there is one encouragement you would like readers to take away from
Appointments with Heaven, what would that be?
APPOINTMENTS WITH HEAVEN is available for purchase
in your local bookstore, online, and wherever books are sold.