100 Years in Medicine
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means
congratulations and thank you
all right i’m a hundred years old you
know
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and people ask me how does it feel to be
a hundred years old
well it feels like being a hundred years
old
and you know what folks it’s great
i feel like i’ve been so blessed
to live these years not that they’ve
been not
you know there are the hills and the
valleys
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in fact i’m very grateful to be a
hundred years old
you you know it happens
it happens
so i’m so pleased to be here with you
folks this
i’m honored to be here but you know
in 1914 right in the middle
of world war one my parents who were
who were osteopathic physicians left
new york with a four year four-month-old
baby
to go to india and there were u-boats in
the water
and there were blackouts all the way
through
got across the atlantic went into india
went across land to northern india and
started their practice in the villages
of north india now this was
not an easy task because they had
their work was done in the jungles of
north india
and for me that was just wonderful but
it was
very hard they took their medical work
back in and moved from one place to the
next
throughout the time in 1918 the pandemic
struck
the pen flew you know something about
that
and i asked my mother how they got
through it
and her one response was
we were very very careful
and we lived through it
so then in 1920
she went into labor with me at the taj
mahal she kind of a
drama queen
i loved my early childhood i thought it
was the best thing in the world
in and out of the jungles and so on
but in 1926 i started school
and my life changed because all of a
sudden
i was a dummy of the class
i didn’t i i didn’t know how to read i
couldn’t read i knew the alphabet i knew
abc’s i knew
one two three and all of that stuff but
i couldn’t put it together we didn’t
know about dyslexia at that time
so i had to repeat first grade but i got
through it
and i don’t know how i learned
in 1978 or something like that i was
with a group of
holistic physicians sitting around a
table and we were talking
there were 10 of us and six of us were
severely dyslexic
and we looked at each other and we said
well maybe that’s why we had to find an
alternative way of looking at medicine
because we don’t know how we learned we
don’t know what
how this thing came together but we did
and we got through
school through
medical school i started at women’s
medical college
in 1941
in september and when we started there
were 50 members
of our class and only 25 of us graduated
because we were told that we had to be
stronger and tougher and brighter than
the men and so anything that we did got
us out of there
so i made it through there and the
interesting thing too
was that in december 7th of 1941
world war ii started
and all of my medical education was
during the war
and what we learned about was the
medicine that we were learning
was a killing machine we learned how to
kill bacteria
we learned how to get rid of we thought
we tried to
get rid of pain everything that we did
was focused on getting rid of and
killing stuff
but we had amazing tools during this war
time
we learned about energy we learned that
the mind had something to do with
with the work that we were doing and we
were just beginning to learn about the
mind
but we didn’t learn anything about the
spirit
but we got through medical school i got
through medical school
and in december of 46 i started my
internship at the deakness hospital in
cincinnati
but they’d never had a woman and an
intern there so they had no place for me
when i was on call
from friday morning to monday night
so i had the x-ray table with a pillow
and a shirt and a
blanket which worked quite well
you know you’re so tired you have to
have something
until finally another woman came in as
an intern and then we got a room
women women’s medical college was the
only medical school in the
in the country at the time anyway so
that’s where we were
i got married during that time and uh
had my first son
and then my husband and i he was a
physician too
we went to wellsville ohio for our
practice
and still the whole concept
of diseases being our enemy and working
against it was what i was taught and
what i was working with
but something kept getting to me there
that wasn’t quite right i’d watch my
parents
deal with the very very sick people in
india
with lepers with people who had nothing
in the villages
but how my parents worked with the
patients
in the villages with almost
no technology very little to do but they
had healing going on
and i knew there was something more that
that was part of the whole healing
process
but you know i
i didn’t have a name for it but when my
eldest son who is
a retired orthopedic surgeon now
came through phoenix he stopped and he
said mom
he was going down to del rio to start
his practice
he said mom i’m real scared he said you
know
i’m going into the world i’m going to
have people’s lives in my hands i don’t
know if i can handle that
and i said well carl if you think you’re
the one that does the healing you have a
right to be scared
but if you can understand that it’s your
job to be what you’ve been taught to do
to the very best of your ability and
then
support the patient as they do their own
healing
you have nothing to be afraid of and i
realized
that what i was talking about was the
physician within each patient
that as a physician if i could contact
the physician within each patient
we’d have a relationship and things
would go better
and it helped me all the way through and
so we moved to phoenix in 1955
started the are clinic worked with
got acupuncture started and did a
number of other things but in 1978 we
started the american holistic medical
association
the reason for starting that was we we
were those of us who started it realized
that we had to bring the spirit back
into
the spirit of healing back into medicine
but took us two years to figure out how
to spell
holistic
with a w or an agent it wasn’t until we
realized
that we were talking about health and
healing and holy
as a root word for holistic so that’s
when it became that
and then sometime in the home line in
about 1996 i was in the grocery safeway
grocery store down the street here
pushing my cart and i heard over the pa
system the hardware store down the
street announcing itself as a holistic
hardware store
and i stopped my cart and i said well
there you have it
they don’t know what it means but it’s
become a household word
so we had to come up with another word
not
to to do what we were doing
and i’d been talking about for some time
about the concept
of living medicine because when i had
been taught was all about
killing and so
i had found out that what i really
needed to do
was do what the native americans talk
about
which is that life itself
is medicined so the medicine we needed
to talk about
and work with was whole process
of living medicine and then through the
years i’ve become aware
of the way that that medicine
works as it’s been working and it’s been
manifesting
itself you know to manifest something
you have to
it’s sort of like jacob’s ladder you you
get to one leg
and then you get to another and then you
get to another and this is a masculine
masculine
aspect of manifesting things and it
needs to be we need that
but i have a friend who said to me not
too long ago
you know i think we have another word
and that’s femifest and i’ve taken on to
that because i like that word
if manifesting is climbing jacob’s
ladder
femifesting is climbing a spiral
and if you femifest you can be on the
level five
and know what’s going on in level two
the feminine knows these things the
masculine doesn’t
we have been looking away from each
other and fighting each other and trying
to figure out
why things are but
what we really need is to work together
like the right hand and the left hand so
feminifestations
i think is a really good word
and that’s part of living medicine
and you know what we don’t have
five races on this world we have one
human race
and as one human race we need to really
know
how to work together
all aspects of ourselves and so
i’ve come up with five l’s that i call
the
five l’s at the foundation for living
medicine
the first one is life
without life nothing else counts but on
the other hand
life by itself is like a seed that’s
sitting there with all the energy
within it but what it needs is a spark
of love which is a divine
spark to activate it so love
active is the second l it activates
life the third l
is laughter laughter without love
is cruel it’s mean but laughter with
love
is joyful and it’s happiness
the fourth one is labor
labor without love is drudgery
it’s hard but labor with love is bliss
it’s why a singer sings it’s why i’m i
do the medicine it’s why it’s it’s what
makes
our hearts sing and the fifth
l is listening listening without love
is empty sound but listening with love
is understanding so
the concept of living medicine
i’m using the this as the foundation for
the con
concept of living medicine and somebody
said to me
a while back so okay what about
gratitude what about hope
and the fruits of the spirit i said well
those are the building blocks
with which we build on the foundation of
living medicine
so our whole
focus on healing from the feminine point
of view
is is mixed with the masculine
we we have to work together and as we do
that
and look for life as living process
we may find out that all kinds of things
happen
so here we are all of a sudden 2020
comes along and
bam we’re in the middle of another
epidemic
and right in the middle of the worst one
that has ever been around
and it’s an energy we can’t see we can’t
hear
we can’t we can’t even shoot or bomb it
you know there’s no way we can’t even
find a family
our pharmaceutical that’ll kill it
we’re really stuck but you know what we
can do
we can reclaim our family units
and our homes
and while we wait to manifest the
vaccine
we can femifest the simple things
which we know how to do to save lives
these simple things i have a
daughter-in-law who’s who’s a
pediatrician in flagstaff
and what she tells her patients
is do the three w’s
the three w’s are wear a mask
wash your hands and watch your distances
you know when these simple things are
presented to us
they’re we’re so used to having
you know hard things to do these simple
things sound like
they’re not going to work or they’re not
doable or they’re
silly or whatever but when you do these
simple things
people don’t get sick isn’t that amazing
so we the three w’s i think are along
with the five l’s are things that we
really can work with
in the in in the process of the whole
healing
but then i got to thinking about it you
know
the whole world is involved with this
virus i mean it’s everywhere there isn’t
any any country that isn’t
facing it but
what we have done to mother earth
has been to kill in the process of
of trying to find all the things that
we’re looking for
we’ve almost killed her
we’ve worked we’ve bled the oil
out of her and made her anemic
we’ve used the minerals that she has
and made osteoporitic
we have then done to our soil
so much damage that we can’t even plant
food that nourishes ourselves so there’s
something that
we need to do to to stop
killing mother earth we’ve been doing
that and doing that
and then i got to think you know when a
surgeon
when a surgeon goes into the surgery
the first thing he does is or she does
is put on the mask
the second thing they do is wash their
hands
the third thing that they do is find
their place
and their place is a space
their own space now mother earth
has given us this amazing
arena surgical arena or life
place it’s it’s it’s our earth
and there it is and if we
think that we can just go
running around and destroying her
that’s that doesn’t help anybody and
and certainly doesn’t help us but if we
can
take back the simple things
which i have learned
my parents worked within the jungles of
india
that and i may not know how to well i do
know how to read and write now but it’s
it’s you know it’s rude
we may not know all these things but we
know these simple things
and they’re so simple that we don’t
really understand how important they are
because they’re the very very essence
of what healing is all about we have all
the medical things we have all the
instruments and all of that which are
really important
but those instruments don’t do anything
unless we have the
touch and the ability to work with
people
so bringing this whole concept
of healing i think that’s what this
virus has done for us
it’s because we have to do that we don’t
have any other way of doing it
sure the the the
vaccine will manifest some place along
the line
but in the meantime we’ll do these
simple things
that she understands and that we
understand because she knows how to
manifest and like
work with manifest and all that stuff so
let’s win this war against this virus
by learning how to live with mother
earth
and when i was a child there were i knew
a hymn
i’m not going to sing it you wouldn’t be
happy that i think
says what we need to do
and it goes lead on o king eternal
the day of march has come for not with
swords
of loud clashing nor roll of stirring
drums
but with deeds of love and mercy
thy heavenly kingdom comes
thank you