Dr. Frank Lipman: Questioning the Norms in Medicine and Life

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  I was always taught to question authority, and that's really helped me in my medical training, too.

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  So I think part of why I went to where I went to in medicine had to do with the way I grew up in South Africa, because you sort of knew that the system was rotten.

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  Today's guest, doctor, Frank Lippmann, grew up in apartheid South Africa.

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  His family, though, never accepted any of the things that they were told to do.

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  In fact, his parents were very strong activists against that system.

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  He ended up finding his way into the world of medicine.

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  And when it came time for him to start practicing, actually served in a hospital in Soweto, just outside of South Africa.

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  Johannesburg eventually really started questioning a lot of what medicine was teaching because he had been taught to question the system, he'd be taught to question authority by his parents.

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  That led him on a long journey that brought him to the United States, doing stints in the South Bronx in the eighties and the lower side in New York City all the way really questioning, what is it we're doing as doctors, and are there better ways?

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  Should we be looking at other traditions to bring into the way that we practice medicine?

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  And that led him on a long journey which started having him integrate all sorts of things that he had seen along the way and to create, really his own approach to the practice of medicine and eventually launching a super successful wellness center in New York City.

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  He's become a multi time author and kind of a revolutionary and an activist now in the space of what it means to be, well, what it means to practice medicine in the United States and beyond.

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  Really loved this conversation that traced his journey, his roots through South Africa and his experiences that really formed him and his lens on modern medicine.

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  We also go into some of the big discoveries.

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  The really big curiosity is the sort of the pushing the envelope side of medicine today and where he thinks it's going.

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  So excited to share this conversation with you.

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  I'm Jonathan fields, and this is good life project.

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  So good to be hanging out with you.

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  I was just trying to remember we've known each other for, I don't know, what, ten years?

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  Dozen years?

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