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Medical Practice
Diplomate, American Board of Internal Medicine Chief of Staff, 1982 Medical City Dallas Hospital Private practice in internal medicine, Dallas Diagnostic Association 1974-88 Director, Biofeedback Department Dallas Diagnostic Association 1976-88 Advisory Positions Co-chairperson of the Panel on Mind/Body Interventions of the Office of Alternative Medicine, National Institutes of Health, 1992-94 Hillary Rodham Clinton's Task Force on Health Care Reform, 1993 The Section on Alternative Medicine of the British Parliament, 1993 President, Isthmus Institute, 1987-89 Executive Editor EXPLORE: The Journal of Science and Healing 2005--present Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, 1995-2003 Author The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things (2006) Healing Beyond the Body (2001) Reinventing Medicine (1999) Be Careful What You Pray For (1997) Prayer is Good Medicine (1996) Healing Words (1993) Meaning & Medicine (1991) Recovering the Soul (1989) Beyond Illness (1984) Space, Time and Medicine (1982) Honors and Awards
Pioneer of Integrative
Medicine
Award, 2007
Pioneer of Integrative
Medicine
Award, 2004
Archon Award, 2003 |
Biography
"I used to believe that we must choose between science and reason on one hand, and spirituality on the other, in how we lead our lives. Now I consider this a false choice. We can recover the sense of sacredness, not just in science, but in perhaps every area of life." - Larry Dossey, M.D. This tall and distinguished Texas physician, deeply rooted in the scientific world, has become an internationally influential advocate of the role of the mind in health and the role of spirituality in healthcare. Bringing the experience of a practicing internist and the soul of a poet to the discourse, Dr. Larry Dossey offers panoramic insight into the nature and the future of medicine. Upon graduating with honors from the University of Texas at Austin, Dr. Dossey worked as a pharmacist while earning his M.D. degree from Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, 1967. Before completing his residency in internal medicine, he served as a battalion surgeon in Vietnam, where he was decorated for valor. Dr. Dossey helped establish the Dallas Diagnostic Association, the largest group of internal medicine practitioners in that city, and was Chief of Staff of Medical City Dallas Hospital in 1982. An education steeped in traditional Western medicine did not prepare Dr. Dossey for patients who were blessed with "miracle cures," remissions that clinical medicine could not explain. "Almost all physicians possess a lavish list of strange happenings unexplainable by normal science," says Dr. Dossey. "A tally of these events would demonstrate, I am convinced, that medical science not only has not had the last word, it has hardly had the first word on how the world works, especially when the mind is involved." 
The impact of Dr. Dossey's work has been remarkable. Before his book Healing Words was published in 1993, only three U.S. medical schools had courses devoted to exploring the role of religious practice and prayer in health; currently, nearly 80 medical schools have instituted such courses, many of which utilize Dr. Dossey's works as textbooks. In his 1989 book Recovering the Soul, he introduced the concept of "nonlocal mind" -- mind unconfined to the brain and body, mind spread infinitely throughout space and time. Since then, "nonlocal mind" has been adopted by many leading scientists as an emerging image of consciousness. Dr. Dossey's ever-deepening explication of nonlocal mind provides a legitimate foundation for the merging of spirit and medicine. The ramifications of such a union are radical and call for no less than the reinvention of medicine. |