Lovely Medicine

Medical residencies are scarcely written about-"it's just something you have to get through," Madsen was advised when she sought help. Deciding to leave after the first year, a more tolerable program-like a country-club version of the gulag-enticed her to stay in the game. When residency ended, Madsen discovered holistic healing through anthroposophic medicine. There she found the medical home she'd been searching for since day one of medical school. As Madsen was developing her healer...
More Description

Medical residencies are scarcely written about-"it's just something you have to get through," Madsen was advised when she sought help. Deciding to leave after the first year, a more tolerable program-like a country-club version of the gulag-enticed her to stay in the game. When residency ended, Madsen discovered holistic healing through anthroposophic medicine. There she found the medical home she'd been searching for since day one of medical school. As Madsen was developing her healer identity within her conventional practice, her adventures embraced reconnecting with her family after residency, strategies to use with drug seekers, midnight commutes on her bike, and how to listen to the land and plants. She ends up in a rural life in Vermont, finally finding her spirit home within medicine and the world.Lovely Medicine is the second of a trilogy of memoirs about Madsen's adventures through conventional medicine. The first, Medicine Dreams, is about going to medical school in her forties while married with three children, and holistically bent. The trilogy is completed with the book, Guilty by Degree--the story about when the Feds came to her office, and what transpired after that.