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Today, my guest is Louis male Medrona.

Louis is certified in family practice, geriatrics, and psychiatry,

and has worked for years in rural emergency medicine.

He's the author of several books on what Native culture can offer the modern world,

including narrative medicine and Coyote Healing.

Lewis has worked in collaboration with Sounds True to create the audio learning series,

The Spirit of Healing, and also a new program on Native American healing meditations.

In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Lewis and I spoke about what Native wisdom can offer modern medicine. We also talked about the value

of relational, storied, and ceremonial culture and the role of spirit beings in the healing process.

Here's my conversation with Louis Malmodrona. Lewis, you have a very impressive set of credentials, an MD from Stanford.

You're a board certified family physician, a psychiatrist, a geriatrician, and you also hold

a PhD in clinical psychology.

So first of all, you've dedicated quite a bit of your life to formal academic training in medicine

and at the same time you have roots in the world of indigenous healing and have created a program which sounds true called

the Spirit of Healing.

And I'm curious when you put all of this together, your academic training and your respect for the indigenous healing traditions.

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