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Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen Interviewed and the Healer’s Art – June 2012

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General Articles

“Poetry in Medicine: Recovering the Poet and Healer in All of Us” 
San Francisco Medicine
(May 2009)
 ”Whole Person/Whole Doctor: Practicing the Healer’s Art”  
Osher 2009
“Staying Soulful; The Healer’s Art: Sharing Grief and Honoring Loss”
AAHPM Bulletin Fall 2007
“Medicine as a Spiritual Path”
From Religion and Ethics Newsweekly Interview, 2005
Strengthening the Will to Live” 
Shambhala Sun (2000)
“Becoming a Blessing”
Reform Judaism (2000)
“Helping, Fixing or Serving”
Shambhala Sun (1999)
 ”A Revolution in Health Care”
Shambhala Sun (1999)
 “On Defining Spirit”
Noetic Sciences Review (1998)
 ”The Gift of New Eyes”
Noetic Sciences Review (1997)
 ”In the Service of Life”
Noetic Sciences Review (1997)
“Pray Without Ceasing”
Noetic Sciences Review (1993)
“The Eye of an Eagle”
Noetic Sciences Review (1992)
 ”Spirit: Resource for Healing”
Noetic Sciences Review (1988)
“Healing and Wholeness: Living Well Dying Well”
Institue of Noetic Sciences Newsletter (1986)
Humanistic Medicine: What is Health?” 
The New Physician (1977)

Medical Education Articles

Peer Reviewed Articles About the Healer’s Art Course (founded by Dr. Remen)

Rabow M, Evans C, Remen R.  “Professional Formation and Deformation: Repression of Personal Values and Qualities in Medical Education”  Family Medicine (January 2013)
Geary C, McKee J, Sierpina VS, Kreitzer MJ. “The Art of Healing: An Adaptation of the Healer’s Art Course for Fourth-Year Students.” Explore. 2009;5:306-307.
O’Donnell, J, Rabow M, Remen, R. “The Healer’s Art: Awakening the Heart of Medicine.” AACH Medical Encounter. 2007;21(1):7-11.
Rabow M, Remen R. “The Healer’s Art: An Innovation in Professional Education.” Journal of General Internal Medicine Supplement. 2006;21,S1:186.
Rabow M, Remen R, Parmelee D, Inuit T. “Professional Formation: Extending Medicine’s Lineage of Service into the Next Century.” Academic Medicine. 2010;85(2):310-317.
Rabow M, Wrubel J, Remen R. “Authentic Community as an Educational Strategy in Professionalism: A National Evaluation of The Healer’s Art Curriculum.” Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2007;22:1422-1428.
Rabow M, Wrubel J, Remen R. “Promise of Professionalism: Personal Mission Statements Among a National Cohort of Medical Students.” Annals of Family Medicine. 2009;7(4): 336-342.
Rabow M, Wrubel J, Remen R. “The Formation of Authentic Community as an Educational Strategy for Professional Development and Identity.” Journal of General Internal Medicine Supplement, 2006;21,S1:143.
Remen R, O’Donnell J, Rabow M. “The Healer’s Art: Education in Meaning and Service.” J Cancer Educ. 2008; 23:65-67.
Remen R, Rabow M. “The Healer’s Art: Professionalism, Service and Mission.” Medical Education. 2005;39:1172.

Other Articles

“Teaching the Art of Healing”
By Jennifer Pearson, M.D.    Minnesota Medicine (April 2009)
“Tending the Spirit in Cancer”
Integrative Oncology (2009)
“Practicing a Medicine of the Whole Person: An Opportunity for Healing” 
Hematology/Oncology Clinics of North America  22 (2008) 767–773    
 ”Can a Doctor Live From the Heart? An Interview with Rachel Naomi Remen”
Sonoma Medical Magazine (2006)
 “The Art of Healing: Q & A with Rachel Naomi Remen”
San Francisco Medicine, Nov. (2006)
 ”Recovering the Soul of Medicine” 
Alternative Therapies May/June 2006 Vol. 12 No. 3 Interview by Karolyn A. Gazella and Suzanne Snyder
The Power of Words: How the labels we give patients can limit their lives”
Western Journal of Medicine (2001)  West J Med 2001;175:353-354
 “The Doctor’s Dilemma: Returning Service, Grace and Meaning to the Art of Healing” 
Whole Earth Magazine
 (2000)
 ”Beyond Cure: Three Stories”
Sonoma County Physicians (1997)
 ”The Recovery of the Sacred”
Good Medicine (IC#39) (Fall 1994), Page 28