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Lynne Lamberg

JAMA. 2000;284:1370.

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Chicago—To work effectively with their patients, clinicians often must bridge cultural and racial divides, as well as those of age and sex.

Clinicians who see Native American patients may improve treatment outcomes by linking behavioral choices to a patient's spiritual beliefs, Robert Palmer, MD, a psychiatrist practicing in San Luis Obispo, Calif, and an Ojibwe Anishinaabe descendent, said at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association. Incorporating Native American teachings into mainstream medical practice, he said, also may benefit patients of other cultures.

Robert Palmer, MD, displays his medicine wheel, a Native American construct he has incorporated into the psychiatric treatment of Indians and non-Indians. (Photo credit: Lynne Lamberg)

Palmer uses traditional Indian healing as well as conventional psychotherapy in his private practice, in which only 5% of patients are Native Americans. He also is the only psychiatrist at the Indian Health Center of Santa Clara . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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