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About the AuthorErica Elliott lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she has a busy medical practice treating patients from across the country. After graduating from University of Colorado Medical School and completing her training in family practice, Erica began her medical career in an understaffed, underfunded health clinic in Cuba, New Mexico. From there, she served in a variety of healthcare settings, including a clinic for indigent care, a busy emergency room, a women's clinic, and a multi-specialty clinic.In 1993, Erica opened her own private practice in her home. Affectionately referred to as ""the Medical Detective,"" Erica specializes in difficult-to-diagnose chronic illnesses. Over the years she has written countless health-related articles and has spoken at many different venues. She gave a weeklong workshop at both Esalen and Omega Institute.Erica is a founding member of The Commons, a cohousing community where she raised her son, Barrett. She gave a TED talk in 2015 about life in cohousing.Erica is currently writing a ""how to"" book about her techniques for discerning the underlying causes of both common and elusive medical problems. The working title is The Medical Detective: Simple Solutions for Solving Medical Mysteries.Over the past decade, Erica has blogged about her life and her medical insights at www.musingsmemoirandmedicine.com. Her website, www.ericaelliottmd.com, features synopses of her books, photos from her life, and short, compelling videos.
Erica Elliott, MD, is a rare kind of healer-a true medical detective. Guided by the spirit of a mountain lion who came to her in a remote wilderness long before she began her medical training, Erica weaves impeccable scientific knowledge together with deep listening to uncover the roots of her patients' suffering. With breathtaking clarity and fierce authenticity, Erica reveals the tenderness forged in the fires of her own trials, and the unshakable love that anchors her work. This is more than a story; it is a transmission of hope-a luminous reminder that pain, when met with courage, becomes a doorway to rebirth. -Joan Borysenko, Ph.D. - author of Minding the Body, Mending the Mind Dr. Erica Elliott's memoir is a powerful story of transformation that shows how adversity can be a doorway to healing-for both doctor and patient. I found it to be insightful and inspirational. -Andrew Weil, MD - Founder, Andrew Weil University of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine In From Doctor to Healer, the third in Dr. Erica Eliott's memoir trilogy, we are invited to join her intrepid journey into exploring her life's sacred mystery and emerging as a true healer. Her approach is brilliantly cinematic, whether she's recounting her death-defying ascent of Denali as a medical student, or delving into the intricacies of her brain injury. Her hard-won, uncanny ability to help patients with maladies that are routinely misdiagnosed and incorrectly treated by conventional medicine has won her a worldwide reputation. Elliott does not merely recount a life; she transmits the medicine of it-bold, raw, and luminous. -Gordon Dveirin, Ed.D. - co-author of Your Soul's Compass and Yes to Change Dr. Elliott is a remarkable person with an astonishing story to tell. Her fascinating life is a living demonstration of teaching by example. What an inspiring woman, continually turning challenges and obstacles into opportunities for personal and spiritual growth! -Cullen Baird Smith - Author, lecturer, inspirational consultant Each experience that Dr. Elliott shares through her amazing gift of writing is full of courage, wonder, hope, and delight. I couldn't put this book down! -Pia Orleane, Ph.D. - author of Sacred Retreat: Honoring the Cycles of Nature In From Doctor to Healer, Dr. Erica Elliott leads us into the inner dimensions of her journey to becoming a healer of others-and of herself. Taught in medical school not to challenge traditional thinking, she instead finds her own inner medicine, listening for deeper causes of patients' problems, becoming a medical detective, and eventually finding the cause and solution of her own suffering after no doctor could help her. Erica's journey takes her from literally scaling mountains to, years later, scaling mountains of great physical suffering and despair. With unswerving spirit, she transforms these challenges into opportunities for deeper healing and deeper wisdom for helping others on their path to wellness. -Christine Warren - Author of Navigating Change I found this book to be a captivating, engaging page-turner that's every bit as satisfying as Dr. Elliott's previous two memoirs. You'll find yourself holding your breath at certain moments, laughing out loud at others, and even crying at times. Her encounters, her journeys, her adventures will astonish and touch you deeply. -Alan Questel - Author of Practice Intentional Acts of Kindness... In this final volume of her memoir trilogy, Dr. Erica Elliott vividly recounts her journeys in medicine, opening her heart, mind and spirit to embrace her own wholeness and strength as a healer. As Erica embarks on a journey to understand disease and illness, she learns afresh that the real source of healing lies within. - Ted Karpf - author of Acts of Forgiveness: Faith Journeys of a Gay Priest
