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| Well, here's a very interesting toppic!! I might stick around 
Healing... there's a lot I've been thinking about that. These are just sort of random ideas, so let's see if they make sense 
First, I don't think Max knew he was *healing* Liz in Pilot. When Liz confronts him later on with her list of questions, the thing goes like this:
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MAX: We can connect with people, as uh, you know. We can manipulate molecular structures, and...we can....
LIZ: Wait, what does that mean?
[Max goes to a clay sculpture on a nearby table and moves his hand in front of it, the shape changes]
MAX: That's, uh, that's how I healed you
| So, as far as Max was concerned, he hadn't used a unique healing ability, he had used his very "normal" manipulation of molecular structures.
When he tells Liz that he's not God,
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MAX: Liz, when I saved you, it was because you were shot, and there was a bullet in you. Something was happening to you that wasn't supposed to happen. It was before your time. But I can't just heal people. I'm not God.
| (Um... actually Max, you can just heal people...  )
So, it seems like Max really didn't think of it as healing, at least not till that point.
If Michael and Isabel thought it like that, maybe Michael assumed that was what Max was going to do. And maybe some form of healing actually can be done by manipulating molecular structures.
I remember back in the day that some theorized that their powers were abilities that they all had, but in less degree. They compared it to drawing: We all can draw, just that some can do it really well, and some should stay away from all pencils and ink for the sake of humanity... That way you can explain why Michael was able to heal the ankle, and why Tess was able to heal Max in Ask Not, though it may also imply that healing a black eyes was impossible to Michael because it couldn't be done in the same way as an ankle... Or maybe his own emotional state didn't allow it.
This brings the question if all of them would be able to heal a bullet wound, though, or if Max is particularly good at manipulating molecular estructures... hhhmmmm... And if they can, why didn't Michael tried to heal Isabel from that bullet wound in Chant Down Babylon?
So, in retrospective, it may seem that Max was really healing Liz (with his unique ability, not the molecular thing) but he wasn't aware of it. He just assumed he was using the other power. He was definitely surprised to see a silver handprint on Liz's stomach, so I would assume he had never healed anyone before, at least not to the extent or degree of leaving a handprint behind.
Anyway, I think by the time of the Phoenix Hospital incident, Max knew by then the extent of his powers and his own unique abilitiy to heal sickness. How he found out? The Destiny book? Nasedo? His powers just getting stronger?? Who knows, but by that point Max knew he could do it. Otherwise, he wouldn't have risked going there, entering the hospital, just to say "um... guess not..."
Or maybe I just think too much about this...
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