Healing and Medicine A Doctor’s Journey Toward Their Integration
Dr. Paul Dieppe with Cinder Hypki
Foreword by Dr. Michael Dixon OBE
Book Review By Dr. Melinda Connor

Every now and then I find a book which is a jewel. This book, Healing and Medicine A Doctor’s Journey Toward Their Integration, by Dr. Paul Dieppe, is one of them. Here a long-term, western physician who is careful, conservative and skilled goes on a journey and grows into the combination that I think most physicians wish they were going to become when they started into medical school. I have been fortunate. My mother was a physician and taught medical students throughout her career. I had the luxury of watching one student after another go through the western medical initiation process. Here in the journey shared in this book, instead of sinking into western arrogance, we see a step-by-step remarkable journey into a physician becoming a healer in the truest sense. Bringing all the best of the western model and combining it with the grace, compassion, listening and courage to develop the many options for healing that a patient could hope to receive.

This is a courageous book. A western physician who has had the courage to say essentially, “I want to be more. I want to do more for my patient’s than force them into a medical model that does not always fit the healing process.” With this courage, Dr. Dieppe has challenged the western model as the be all and end all. And subsequently, has shined a light on the healing process. And further, he has shared a pathway that other physicians can follow. It is also a template on how to integrate healing back into the western medical establishment and become “more” as a physician.