We talked with:

• Gladys McGarey, M.D., was a pioneer in allopathic and holistic medical movements and practiced medicine even when she was over 100 years old. She was a founding diplomat of the American Board of Holistic Medicine. She was the cofounder and past president of the American Holistic Medical Association. She cared for thousands of patients and people all around the world and across all life stages from birth to death, where she inspired what she calls "living medicine."
• Larry Bergstrom, M.D., is an assistant professor of medicine at Mayo Clinic in Arizona in the Division of Consultative Medicine. He is the past chair of general internal medicine in Mayo Clinic in Rochester and moved to Mayo Clinic Arizona 2006 to start the integrative medicine program. Dr. Bergstrom sees patients for whom conventional medicine has had insufficient answers, including those with chronic fatigue, chronic pain, autoimmune disease.  He tells his patients that he is not so much focused on treating their disease but rather trying to find ways of helping them become healthy.

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