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For Northrup, there’s room for all of it, plus some of the Western medicine she learned at Dartmouth. When I ask her if she has ever had a patient who’s confounded her, who’s made her rethink her insistence that there’s no such thing as random illness, she pauses for a minute before declaring that, no, nothing has ever tested her faith like that. It is, it seems, easier to have convictions when you allow a whole, messy slew of them to coexist. “If I were coming from a place of, this belief system is wrong and this is right, then I would have had that crisis, absolutely,” she says plainly. “But I’ve always known that there was a place for everything and that you have to believe in it all. With enough belief, almost anything can work.”
