Introducing Sacred Medicine

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, after leaving medicine – supposedly for good – I had to expand and redefine “health” and change the whole way...
The Doctor-Patient Relationship:  Part Two

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Last week I wrote about the Doctor-Patient Relationship of the broken, outdated, patriarchal health care system of The Old Medicine.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 going out on a limb to suggest a new kind of Doctor-Patient Relationship, the kind I practice and I hope others in the new...
I’m Putting On My White Coat – AGAIN

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 ones you’re sure are done this time, only they kiss and make up and ultimately wind up engaged, leaving you partly...