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.

David R. Kopacz, MD in Kosmos

Becoming Medicine

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.

Published in Volume 20 Issue 2

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For thousands of years, we lived according to the principles of village life. Then, around the 14th Century, our lives were reorganized by rulers around growth and accumulation – often at the cost of community, equity, and the living Earth. What would it mean to return to simplicity, and mutual care?

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