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!

This was an enlightening talk. It has made me reassess how I view myself and others. I am very grateful for your generosity of sharing this. Namaste 🙏🏻

The illness can become the window into discovering wholeness. You are ahead of most other practitioners when it comes to seeing the perfection and wholeness of a patient. I look forward to listening again. 🙏❤️🌎

This is a great conversation to be part of. Many thanks! Such good reminders that our patients are inherently whole and good. It is our job to remind them of that goodness.

Thanks for sharing this inspiring interview. It helps us who are staying at home to think to think of others as whole in this uncertain time as well

I love than when I see myself as whole I can see you as the same

Thank you, Adam : you speak to my heart ! I’ve rarely been sick , but now at 83 I find a few parts are missing screws. Allopathic medicine men are seem eager to assign pills that have worse side effects then the
dis-ease. Listening to you I realized I felt better then I had in months all because of your thoughts on life and people

Incredible. As a med student we’re taught in theory to treat the patient as a whole person, but I imagine this is easy to lose in practice. I feel very lucky to have stumbled across this conversation at this point in my training and am excited to take this approach with me. Thank you.

Yes, “What if.....”.
Wisdom and Compassion, both, are taking wing here.
Namaste🙏🏻

Will take it to practice with my next patient, very inspiring🙏🏿

WOW! This was hands down the most insightful talk that I’ve heard. This really spoke to me. I wish that Every single medical professional would and could operate under this mindset! The positive energy transfer from a medical professional is very healing and calming. I witnessed this with my mother who was in a coma as result of a brain surgery. We initially had a doctor who interacted with our family very matter of fact. And his demeanor was very cold. We requested that he stop referring to my mom as his “coma patient “ and instead use her name. We as a family began to speak to interact with my mom, read to her, pray with her, sing her favorite song’s. Soon, the doctors and nurses began to replicate our actions, by speaking to her directly as if she was coherent. She eventually woke up and survived! Positive energy, words, Faith is key🙏🏽

I really enjoyed this! I am looking forward to the next one!
Thank you 🙏

Excellent in timeliness and truth.

Loved it would like to hear more! Thankyou

Great listen!! Thank you!❤️🙏🏽

A practitioner of timeless connection, connecting to the 'other' in the completeness, the wholeness, of their being. We are all able to relate to the 'other' in this way if we choose.