From Anatomy Lab to Dharma Lab

Wendy Dainin Lau, MD, a Zen priest and emergency medicine physician and addiction specialist, shares her unique journey from software engineering, to working in some of the busiest emergency rooms in New York City, and into the priesthood. Dainin discusses her encounters with the “divine messengers” of suffering, old age, and death in medical practice and how they led her from the anatomy lab to the Dharma lab.