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The Scalpel and the Silver Bear: The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing (Reprint Edition) by M.D. Alvord Lori Arviso, Elizabeth Cohen Paperback, 204 Pages, Published 2000 ISBN-10: 0-553-37800-7 / 0553378007 ISBN-13: 978-0-553-37800-9 / 9780553378009 The first Navajo woman surgeon combines western medicine and traditional healing. A spellbinding journey between two worlds, this remarkable book describes surgeon Lori Arviso Alvord's struggles to bring modern medicine to the Navajo reservation in Gallup, New Mexico and to bring the values of her p |