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When traditional healing clashes with Western medicine training

My grandmother wants me to learn our traditional healing practices but I'm in medical school and I feel like I'm living in two worlds that don't trust each other.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A person struggles to honor ancestral wisdom while pursuing institutional legitimacy in systems that historically reject Indigenous knowledge.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Indigenous restorative traditions?”

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