In my quarter-century as a child psychiatrist, I thought I had seen it all. Children mangled by pit bulls, a boy suffering from flashbacks after a grenade exploded in his hand in Iraq, a 3-year-old ...
MERCED, Calif. — The patient in Room 328 had diabetes and hypertension. But when Va Meng Lee, a Hmong shaman, began the healing process by looping a coiled thread around the patient’s wrist, Mr. Lee’s ...
"Shaman of the digital village." What an intriguing phrase. It refers to the special magic that human doctors will still possess even if IBM's Watson and other electronic tools take over many of their ...