<![CDATA[The Medicine: Letters]]>https://themedicine.substack.com/s/the-lexiconhttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tuJN!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffda03dde-a5e1-4157-80a5-6cde291ec8aa_500x500.pngThe Medicine: Lettershttps://themedicine.substack.com/s/the-lexiconSubstackFri, 17 Apr 2026 01:13:54 GMT<![CDATA[Elephant]]>https://themedicine.substack.com/p/elephanthttps://themedicine.substack.com/p/elephantMon, 09 Jun 2025 18:49:00 GMTYou may be familiar with the myth of the Blind Men and the Elephant:

19th C. Japanese Carving, image courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art

Originating in ancient India with versions spanning Jain, Hindu and Buddhist texts, the parable tells the story of six men, all blind, who encounter a new kind of creature.

The animal is as unexpected as it is massive. Ea…

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]]><![CDATA[Diagnosis]]>https://themedicine.substack.com/p/diagnosishttps://themedicine.substack.com/p/diagnosisWed, 30 Apr 2025 19:01:47 GMTLeaders and Learners of Care — hello! First off, welcome to our new subscribers and thanks for being here. Here is this month’s Letter. April brings us to D, and D is for Diagnosis, a topic core to my teaching since it all began. I hope you find it useful to your classrooms, your clinics, and to all the places your beautiful minds are in action. Forgive…

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]]><![CDATA[the Circle]]>https://themedicine.substack.com/p/c-is-for-the-circlehttps://themedicine.substack.com/p/c-is-for-the-circleThu, 27 Mar 2025 17:02:30 GMTLeaders and learners of care — I’d long planned for this month’s word to be care. After all, March being month number three, which brings us to C, and care is not only a central concept to this course but one I’ve given all kinds of talks and presentations and womansplains about over the years.

But last week I stumbled across the concept of The Circle i…

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]]><![CDATA[Biopsychosocial ]]>https://themedicine.substack.com/p/biopschyosocial-spiritualsexualnutritionalcircadhttps://themedicine.substack.com/p/biopschyosocial-spiritualsexualnutritionalcircadFri, 28 Feb 2025 22:47:04 GMTLeaders and learners of care — on this last day of February, our B-word: Biopsychosocial. This word revolutionized my understanding of what health actually is, means, and takes when I first learned it, and it still reinvigorates my thinking every time I revisit it. This is especially true as it applies to clinical knowledge — a unique form of knowledge …

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]]><![CDATA[Art]]>https://themedicine.substack.com/p/arthttps://themedicine.substack.com/p/artSat, 25 Jan 2025 13:31:42 GMTGood morning and thanks for being here. Today’s post is the first in the Letters section of our course on the meaning of care. It is January, and we embark with A. No course on care would be complete without art, so let’s begin with it. I am curious what you take from this and look forward to hearing from you. — Alexa

P.S. we are in shaking times, …

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