Cured vs. Healed: A Doctor's Near-Death Journey to a New Kind of Medicine

About this episode

Don Murphy shares his transformative experiences in medicine through his memoirs, focusing on his time with the Navajo people and his journey to a new understanding of healing.

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to my third memoir about my unusual trajectory in the world of medicine. In my first memoir, “Medicine and Miracles in the High Desert,” I shared with readers my profoundly life-changing and eye-opening time on the Navajo Reservation as a young schoolteacher in the early 1970s. Many years later, I returned to the Navajo people to serve them as a medical doctor in Cuba, New Mexico. The second memoir, “From Mountains to Medicine,” takes the reader on a spellbinding, ten...

People in this episode

Host: Don Murphy

Topics covered

• medicine
• memoir
• personal journey
• Navajo culture
• healing
• near-death experience

Keywords

• medicine
• memoir
• Navajo Reservation
• healing
• near-death experience
• personal journey
• Cuba New Mexico

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Medicine and Miracles in the High Desert, From Mountains to Medicine

Places: Navajo Reservation, Cuba, New Mexico

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