by Karoline | Apr 16, 2024 | COVID, Healing, Medicine, Mental Health, Muse, Physical Health, Uncategorized
When I was training to become a physician, the rules of the broken, outdated, patriarchal medical system were made clear to me. They went something like this. As your doctor, I will sacrifice everything in my personal life in order to fix what is broken in you. I will...
by Karoline | Apr 11, 2024 | COVID, Healing, Medicine, Mental Health, Muse, Physical Health, Uncategorized
When I was working on my New York Times bestseller Mind Over Medicine, a friend of mine wrote to me right after leaving her doctor’s office. With her permission, I published her letter in Mind Over Medicine. She wrote: Lissa, if this doctor robs me as I leave the...
by Karoline | Feb 27, 2024 | Creativity, Healing, Medicine, Mental Health, Muse
I want to talk to you all about something I rarely talk about these days- ART. I want to talk about it because I used to teach encaustic art classes while also practicing medicine. But I quit teaching art after I left the hospital and started a full-time writing and...
by Karoline | Feb 13, 2024 | Creativity, Healing, Inner Pilot Light, Medicine, Mental Health, Muse, Physical Health, Uncategorized
In this series, I’m reviewing the Cliff Notes of everything I should have learned in medical school, but didn’t- and everything I’ve learned since I finished my medical training about healing from my own research and self-study. If you haven’t yet read the first 10...
by Karoline | Feb 10, 2024 | Creativity, Healing, Inner Pilot Light, Medicine, Mental Health, Muse, Physical Health, Uncategorized
In this series, I’m reviewing the Cliff Notes of everything I should have learned in medical school, but didn’t- and everything I’ve learned since I finished my medical training about healing from my own research and self-study. If you haven’t yet read the first 10...
