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J. Brown Yoga Talks

Timothy McCall, MD - "Beyond Reductionist Intervention"

J. Brown Yoga Talks

J. Brown

Yoga, Health & Fitness, Yogateacher, Alternative Health, Yogaindustry, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

4.4696 Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Timothy McCall, MD, author of three books, Examining Your Doctor: A Patient's Guide to Avoiding Harmful Medical Care; Yoga as Medicine: The Yogic Prescription for Health and Healing, and his latest; Saving My Neck: A Doctor's East/West Journey Through Cancer, talks with J about reductionist science and the power of intuition. They discuss Timothy’s decision to stop practicing medicine and dedicate himself to yoga, changing how we study holistic healing, medical discernment, cancer treatments, and how direct experience trumps everything else.

 

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0:00.0

All right. Here we are. This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast. My name is Jay Brown.

0:19.2

If you're new, welcome, everyone else, can you believe it?

0:26.6

I just can't believe what has unfolded over the last week.

0:33.2

When I was last speaking to you, it had just been the day after, like, the first day in Minneapolis

0:39.4

that we saw something happening, and it just, it certainly got much worse over the course

0:45.6

of the week. And, you know, I have had some conversations on the show about institutional

0:53.3

and systemic racism. And if there's one thing I've learned

0:58.7

is then, it's not really for me to be making any big statements about it. Right now,

1:06.8

it's about actions. It's not about words.

1:13.1

And I realized that I was talking to some friends just the other day.

1:18.0

It's not always clear what to do.

1:22.4

And it's not like I would have any answers for anyone.

1:25.4

Certainly, there are resources out there that are

1:28.5

hoping to educate people on things that they can do. For myself, I guess I'm just talking to the

1:36.4

people around me. Just this morning, I kind of got into it with my father-in-law. I'm here in Virginia,

1:43.6

and longtime listeners have heard me mention. Wein-law. I'm here in Virginia. And long-time listeners have heard me

1:45.2

mention that we make trips here. I mentioned a few weeks ago that we decided to pay them a visit.

1:50.5

I'm here for my birthday, actually. I turned 48 tomorrow. And we just decided then we've all

1:59.0

been isolated for months and we wanted to take the risk to be together

2:03.4

and I'm glad that we have it's really been wonderful to be with family even when me and my father

2:12.3

not get into it about stuff and it didn't get bad like some of of you remember from years past, we've had it out

2:18.8

on things. This morning, we just, you know, we got into some discussion because when the people

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