The Paradoxes of Healing
Lissa Rankin, MD, describes herself as a skeptic. She is a Western-trained
ob-gyn, linear thinker, and evidence-informed scientist. In the same breath,
however, she also describes herself as a mystic an open-hearted, spiritually
alive, empathic healer who has witnessed countless miracles of healing and has
also experienced them firsthand herself.
What follows is an excerpt from her book, "Sacred Medicine: A Doctor's Quest to Unravel the Mysteries of Healing."