March 2, 2020 | 3 min read

Universal Trauma-informed Care

By Sadie Elisseou, MD, Boston VA Health Care System

Understanding perpetrators of violence as potential trauma survivors can inspire empathy in clinicians and contribute to a universal, trauma-informed approach to patient care.

August 15, 2019 | 1 min read

The Circle of Whole Health

By David Kopacz, MD, University of Washington

You can use the Circle of Health to support veterans in coming home in heart, mind, body, and spirit.

August 9, 2019 | <1 min read

What would you like to bring back into your life that you had to put on the back burner during your work and training as a medical professional?

Painting, pottery, poetry, paddle boarding, travel, music, and eating healthy!

July 31, 2019 | 3 min read

The Healing Circle as a Holistic Framework

By David Kopacz, MD, University of Washington

As can be learned from a Native American healer, to heal profoundly, one must holistically integrate mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual aspects of being human.

July 19, 2019 | <1 min read

What’s your personal motto?

Choose kind. Compassion. Equity and dignity for all. . . . physicians from around the world share short personal mottos to live by.

July 18, 2019 | 4 min read

Circle Medicine: A Holistic Approach to Health for Clinicians and Patients

By David Kopacz, MD, University of Washington

It can be helpful to see the circle path of the hero's journey as the healer's journey, the path that we take through our lifelong medical education. For the true healer, this is not a journey we make just once, but periodically we embark on exploring new depths of the suffering of the world, reaching deep into ourselves to find new resources for healing to bring into our work and world.

May 10, 2019 | <1 min read

What did you learn from your mother that influences your practice?

Happy Mother’s Day! Beautiful learnings from clinicians all over North America.