Medicine & Miracles Among the Navajo People with Erica Elliott, MD

Erica M. Elliott, MD, is a medical doctor with a busy private practice in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Referred to as “the Health Detective,” she has successfully treated patients from across the country with difficult-to diagnose health conditions. She served in the Peace Corps in Ecuador and lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

In this episode, Erica discusses:

• Her search for her purpose and the surprising places her search led her
• How she came to teach on the Navajo reservation
• What living and teaching on the reservation was like
• How she crossed the cultural divide and connected with her students
• How her teaching approach became a pilot program for bilingual-bicultural education
• Her summer as a sheepherder in the Arizona high desert
• What her deep dive into Navajo culture taught her
• How the experience changed her
• Witnessing and experiencing miracles
• Her encounter with a mountain lion
• The prophecy she was given by a Navajo elder
• How she approaches practicing medicine

To purchase a copy of Erica’s book: https://www.innertraditions.com/books/medicine-and-miracles-in-the-high-desert
Visit Erica's website: http://www.ericaelliottmd.com/
Erica's blog: https://www.musingsmemoirandmedicine.com/

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