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Introducing Sacred Medicine
When I decided to put my white coat back on, I committed to reclaiming what I love about medicine and ditching what I’ve come to despise. In fact,...
Meet Your Inner Pilot Light
If you’re a patient of mine, if you’ve been reading my blog, if you’re a student of the Get Out Of Your Own Way e-course, or if you read The Daily...
Permission To Break My Heart
My five-year-old daughter Siena fell in love recently. It was with another girl - a five-year-old princess named Vivien, who lives in a castle in...
You’re Healed If You Think You Are
As research for my upcoming book Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof You Can Heal Yourself, I have been digging deep into the medical literature,...
When Docs Get Annoyed At Empowered Patients
I felt my ire rise when I read this article on CNN about how patients are giving their doctors headaches. Apparently, this video entitled “The...
The Doctor-Patient Relationship: Part Two
Last week I wrote about the Doctor-Patient Relationship of the broken, outdated, patriarchal health care system of The Old Medicine. Today, I’m...
The Doctor-Patient Relationship: Part One
When I was training to become a physician, the rules of the broken, outdated, patriarchal medical system were made clear to me.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...
Is Alternative Medicine Just a Placebo?
As someone who supports many forms of alternative medicine, included many alternative medicine practitioners in my integrative medicine practice at...
Coming Out In My White Coat
I know I was a little cryptic when I announced that I’m putting my white coat back on, and I’ve gotten hundreds of sweet, curious, and supportive...
How To Be A Great Patient: A Doctor’s Wish List
Given the state of our broken health care system, I feel like we doctors don’t have much right to ask our patients how to behave, since most of us...
I’m Putting On My White Coat – AGAIN
I’ve tried to leave medicine at least a dozen times. Medicine and I are like that couple that keeps breaking up and getting back together again, the...
Dedicated To The Outsiders
I was cleaning out my storage unit and came across the book of poems I wrote as a young girl - the book a publisher wanted to publish back when I...