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Even after learning her clinical skills at Stanford School of Medicine and becoming a practicing surgeon, Lori Arviso Alvord (Diné) realized she had more to learn about being a healer. She sought out the wisdom of her tribe’s cultural healers to help her understand how to treat the whole person. That guidance remains one of the driving factors in her current surgical practice near the Yakama Nation in Washington. Her groundbreaking story as the first female Navajo surgeon is recounted in her memoir, “The Scalpel and the Silver Bear“, and is an inspiration for the generations of prospective Native American medical practitioners.
Her’s is a wonderful narrative of her journey. It was a gift share with my by a Native colleague at an Urban Program many years ago. I utilize it over the past 15 years working with medical students while mentoring them in community engaged work and cultivating who they wanted to be as future physicians. Thank you.
When is the next book coming out