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It Could Happen Here

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The Importance of Balancing Western and Traditional Medicine

I think it's important to just already start the conversation that so much indigenous medical technology has already been appropriated by Western medicine as Western medicine aspirin. Many traditional healing practices still find themselves seeping into the field of psychiatry or around parenting mental health. The way that, for instance, that indigenous peoples, I think there's a growing understanding in the medical field about planetary health and the impacts of climate change on health. There's already a lot of stuff there that we're working with. And I think it'simportant to give indigenous peoples their flowers.

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