The Medicine Of Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen


Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen is and author and a Proffesor at the University of California School of Medicine. She is a well known doctor because of her unique techniques in peoples' recovery. She uses not only scientific knowledge, but spiritual methods as well.

At the age of fifteen, she was diagnosed with Crohn's Disease. She believed she would die be the time she would be forty years old. However, she grew up around a rabbi grandfather and a few doctor relatives who were not going to let her go so easily, and they helped her through her suffering and she stays strong and continues to be winning the fight against Crohn's Disease.

This affects how she works as a doctor. She says "I reflect on my life as a doctor, and I reflect on my work in medicine through my life." She reflects on life by the relationships she builds with her patients. She has come to realize that people may suffer from the same illness or disease, but they all have their stories showing their strengths and gifts. She wants to know these stories so she knows how to approach their treatment. Through her years with this successful method, she believes that "God made us with the capacity to see the beauty and the light in the events and experiences of others, we just have to try to see them and learn." The reflection Dr. Remen makes about her job through her life can be traced all the way back to when she was a teenager. Her family supported her with a combination of their close relationship and their spiritual support.

Like her patients, Rachel has her own story, which she shares with people through her two books A Kitchen Table's Wisdom and My Grandfather's Blessing. Her book A Kitchen Table's Wisdom, Rachel describes overcoming ailments together rather than alone. That is why the power of patient doctor relationship is so strong and supplements what the limit of science cannot reach.



Overall, Dr. Remen combines the two almost opposites that have contradicted each other numerous times, religion and science. She uses them together, science with medicine, and religion with the spiritual connection with the patient and over coming the disease with them. This is an example on how when used together, science and religion can overcome things that they could not do alone. Even though this seems cliche, apparently it is somewhat true with Dr. Remen

sources for pictures
www.kpokorny.com
www.joinwellness.com
www.rachelremen.com


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