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Are you living the life you imagined when you dreamt of being a doctor?
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Instead of struggling to fit into a profoundly dysfunctional system, make a different choice.
Even if it feels impossible — even if you’ve been told again and again that there is no room to shape your practice, no space for your perspective, no power in your voice — the truth is different.
By picking up the thread of your Personal Myth, you begin to rediscover your inner authority. From there, you can map an authentic path in medicine — one that bends toward meaning, integrity, and freedom..
What is Metamorphosis Medicine?
Speaking unfettered truth, fueling personal transformation and reimagining Medicine. By doctors, for doctors.
Metamorphosis Medicine is a toolkit, an ever-expanding collection of original and curated content, points of view, experiences, practices, and strategies, combined with guidance. These resources are a Missing Curriculum, designed to help doctors achieve the most fulfilling expression of our profession, tailored to define a fulfilling, transformative, personal journey.
Ten Initiatives to Heal Medicine
Published on Close to the Bone with Lauren Kosinski, MD and LinkedIn in January 2025.
Before you write these off as unachievable, consider what practice could look like if these initiatives were realized. We have to imagine what we want to build. To the extent we believe we’re stuck, we are stuck.
1. The difference in income between the lowest paid and the highest paid person in medicine should be no more than 10x.
2. Forgive all medical school debt and establish debt-free medical education.
3. Make residency a sustainable lifestyle.
4. Establish the Functional Medicine model as the foundation for clinical instruction.
5. Every doctor should write and continually update a Personal Practice Prescription at every stage of clinical training and practice.
6. Reframe and restore physician professional accountability.
7. Continual rebalancing of the 3 priorities of medicine: intellectual engagement, prosperity, and meaningful work.
8. The practice of medicine should not make doctors sick or sick at heart; we should thrive because of our practices, not despite them.
9. Establish a single payer system that covers everyone and includes wellness activities.
10. Know your doctor origin story.
Hello
I’m Lauren Kosinski, MD, Creator of Metamorphosis Medicine
What I bring to the table:
25+ years in clinical surgery in diverse practice settings, from solo general surgery practice in Alaska to subspecialty academic colorectal surgical practice
Jungian (Analytic) Psychology Training Candidate (over 600 class hours), ISAPZurich (Switzerland)
Certified yoga teacher with 700 hours of yoga teacher and integrative therapy training hours
Creation and management of The Seed House, a wellness center and prototype
Life Atlas Consultant and Gifts Compass Inventory Advisor Certifications
Master’s degree in Health and Medical Sciences
3 years as executive director of a small surgical research foundation
MBA Essentials Certificate from the London School of Economics
My humanity
medicines
Things to support you in your practice
TOOLS, RESOURCES, REMINDERS
Some free, some paid.