Deborah Cohan: The Dancing Doctor

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April 21, 2023 a project of ServiceSpace Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance? - Lewis Carroll - Deborah Cohan: The Dancing Doctor "Deborah Cohan is a lifelong dancer, obstetrician-gynecologist, and teacher of embodied medicine. In 2013, moments before undergoing a double-mastectomy, she and the entire operating room team broke out into dance, filmed by the anesthesiologist for Deborahs friends and family. The video found its way into the public sphere and has since been viewed 8 million times. Deborah oversees births at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and serves as the medical director of HIVE, caring for pregnant people living with HIV. She teaches embodied medicine through the Foundation for Embodied Medicine. For Cohan, medicine and movement are deeply interwoven. She has served as a doula for those who are giving birth and those who are dying. More about her remarkable work and life in this interview. { read more } Be The Change What embodied practice or expression makes you feel most alive? COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News Seven Lessons Learned from Leaves Thich Nhat Hanh: Ten Love Letters to the Earth Words Can Change Your Brain Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention Consciousness as the Ground of Being The Really Terrible Orchestra When the Earth Started to Sing Robert Lax: A Life Slowly Lived DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 158,008 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More