David R. Kopacz, MD
David R. Kopacz, MD is a psychiatrist working in the primary care clinic at Seattle VA. He is a whole health education champion with the national VA Office of Patient Centered Care & Cultural Transformation and an Assistant Professor at University of Washington. He is the author of three books – Re-humanizing Medicine: A Holistic Framework for Transforming Your Self, Your Practice, and the Culture of Medicine; and with Joseph Rael (Beautiful Painted Arrow) Walking the Medicine Wheel: Healing Trauma & PTSD and Becoming Medicine: Pathways of Initiation into a Living Spirituality.
Becoming Medicine
Journal Article
Joseph is always telling me that we are all connected. “What comes around, goes around,” he says, explaining how the medicine wheel works. Sometimes listening to him gets my head spinning in circles, but that is how it is when you are learning new ways of thinking and new ways of being.