Medicine, I Forgive You

Medicine, I Forgive You

Dear Medicine, I know you thought you were helping me when you taught me that the needs of my patients were more important than my own self care. I know you thought you were training me to be an exceptional doctor when you forced me to scrub into surgery when I had...
A Vision To Heal Health Care

A Vision To Heal Health Care

I once wrote a whole book that is yet unpublished called BROKEN: One Doctor’s Search For The Lost Heart Of Medicine. It’s still unpublished, but I now know the real reason – because my role is not just to raise awareness of how broken our system is, but to be a...
What To Do When You Can’t Heal Yourself

What To Do When You Can’t Heal Yourself

In my upcoming book Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof  You Can Heal Yourself (Hay House, 2013) and in many recent blog posts such as this, this, and this, I talk a lot about the mind’s power to heal the body. But when you or a loved one is sick, how do you know...