Topic: What Really Matters: 7 Lessons for Living from the Stories of the Dying
Guest: Karen Wyatt MD
Karen M. Wyatt MD is a family physician who has spent her 25 year medical career working with patients in challenging settings, such as hospices, nursing homes and indigent clinics.
She’s founded a free medical clinic in a homeless shelter, accompanied three medical mission teams to Honduras, and led a non-profit clinic for the uninsured… in its growth from a 4-hour per week all-volunteer operation… to a full-time, full-service medical center.
She’s testified twice at Senate briefings on the cutting edge model of integrated medical care, combining physical and behavioral health, which she helped create & implement in her clinic for the uninsured… and She’s currently a member of the executive committee of the Integral Health and Medicine Center.
Dr. Wyatt is the author of “What Really Matters: 7 Lessons for Living from the Stories of the Dying,” a book of stories about hospice patients she cared for and the spiritual lessons she learned from them.