An Essential Approach To Medicine

Adam Rizvi, MD is an ICU doctor who has been working in a surge area hit hard by the novel coronavirus. He has a unique approach to his patients, full of love for their whole selves. We can all learn something from it - especially health practitioners and their patients.

In this interview he details his approach, and Julia asks him a few questions as he describes his process. They are both excited about the potential for a whole human, unconditional love-based shift in Western medicine.

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I wish all doctors felt and thought like you both do. ❤️ We so need Western medicine to take on a more loving approach to looking after a person. The patient is not their disease. There’s so much more. Find the essence. Patients heal faster and feel calmer when they have a physician who actually cares about them.
Thank you for putting this talk out there. 🙏🏻💕🌿

Wow. As an alternative and complementarity practitioner I benefited from this so much. And I'm so unbelievably glad to hear a Western medical practitioner talk in this way. Just an inspiration. Bless his work.
Thank you for this interview!

Such an EMPATHETIC, COMPASSIONATE, ENLIGHTENING and ILLUMINATING conversation❣️
It is SO ENCOURAGING to hear Health Care Professionals talk of patients as being more than their Physical Bodies ❗️
Bless both of you for sharing this Life--Sustaining perspective. Praying that your Perspectives and Attitudes will find traction and be embraced by others. 🙏🏻💕

Amazing and profound. Thank you so much 😊💕🙏🏻. Looking forward to the next one.

Brilliant! Thank you! I always loved the way Brené Brown talks about wholeheartedness; though I never really understood it. Perhaps it’s because it feels broader than my heart as an indication of wholeness.

Just as I didn’t understand sharing “love” with a future self. That didn’t seem to be something I could manufacture on the fly; it felt more spontaneous.

There was also Marissa Peer’s idea of people’s main core issue nearly always being the idea that they aren’t enough. And her reversal with, “You are enough.” Wonderful concept, though I also wondered, ‘What is you?’

This interview brought all of those ideas together for me. “Wholeness” puts the focus for me in a place I can understand. It’s some sort of real utopian space that is so readily accessible. It feels like it works within and between people. It makes things simple.

Who’d have thought that a word and practical example could make such a difference? Beautiful!