The Plot Thickens
Dec 19, 2017 How does a mindful practitioner of any of the healing arts navigate these calamitous times? Children at jeopardy of losing health insurance, economic policies that hurt working people, poor people, disabled people, elders? A political climate that polarizes neighbors of different ethnicities, skin color, gender preferences, economic class? International saber-rattling that threatens humanity and all creatures with nuclear holocaust? When I decided to work in a sm
Hero Worship
My list of patient heroes grows longer by the day. I share stories about them with friends and family, and have written a bit about them over the years. On occasion, I have sent the local newspaper an In Memoriam. When I come right out and tell a patient that she or he is my hero, I usually get a startled look, like: "What, you mean you think I know more about living bravely with my condition than you, my doctor does? That's kind of scary!" But if they are truly one of my her