Dr. Patrick Codd

Neurosurgeon. Founder.
Zen Buddhist Priest.

-Yunmen



Sickness and Medicine cure each other.
The whole world is medicine.

Surgeon & Steward

Harvard-trained, award-winning neurosurgeon, whose career bridges cutting-edge brain surgery and ancient contemplative practice.

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Zen and the ARt of Brain Surgery

Zen Priest

A neurosurgeon and Zen priest, Dr. Patrick Codd is walking the mountain road with ninety-nine curves—learning, through each turn, how to heal without losing his way.

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The Dragon Lab

The Dragon Lab offers a new model for healing our healers—uniting science, art, Zen. We offer today’s physicians a place whee they may once again encounter the dragon of deepest wisdom, identity, courage, and compassion-to become present as stewards for mortality’s most intimate moments

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Founder

Innovator

At the interface of neurosurgery and engineering, developing the next generation of minimally invasive neurosurgical technology.

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-Xuedou

A student asked the teacher, "What is the Way?"

The teacher replied, "A dragon singing in a withered tree."