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A Sioux Medicine Man Describes His Own Illness and Approaching Death
Abstract
A Sioux medicine man spent a long professional life as a "primary care" rural indigenous practitioner. He was treated, against his wishes, in a modern hospital for his own last illness. His description of that experience and of his non-Western medical practice emphasizes persisting problems in the humanistic aspects of our science.
Article and Author Information
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▸From the Department of Psychiatry, Georgetown University Hospital; Washington, D.C.
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▸Requests for reprints should be addressed to Thomas N. Lewis, M.D.; Department of Psychiatry, Georgetown University Hospital; Washington, DC 20007.
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- Received April 23, 1979.
- Accepted December 18, 1979.
- © 1980 American College of Physicians
