TAMARA RETTINO

Dr. Tamara Rettino, DACM is a Doctor of Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture based in Buffalo, NY where she specializes in women, children, and the LGBTQ community with special emphasis on the childbearing year, mental and emotional wellness, and acupuncture to ease any pain and anxiety at the end stages of terminal disease. She was a lead medic at Occupy LA and many human rights demonstrations, including volunteering as an ambulance medic in the West Bank, Palestine during the Second Intifada. Tamara is also a writer, mother, artist, birth doula, and an end-of-life doula. She identifies as "Jewitch" and brings a balance of science, spirituality, and humor to her work. She's also the head hag of Hag & Hare Apothecary, creating handcrafted magical oils, spray, tinctures, and kits and she's a percussionist and vocalist for the, now legendary, Krampus themed band, Krammpstein. Tamara first attended one of Joanna Ebenstein's Morbid Anatomy lectures in Los Angeles in 2011 where she met the love of her life, and they have been together ever since.

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