Larry Dossey (born 1940) is a Texas internist and author who has advocated for a blending of orthodox medicine and spiritual medicine since the 1980s. Along with a small handful of other physicians (such as Bernie Siegel), he was early in orienting his patient advocacy along lines of New Age principles, preceding even the better known Deepak Chopra in that field. Dossey's "nonlocality" approach involves sending "healing energy" (though prayer, meditation, visualization, etc) to distant patients. By his account, modern medicine can be divided into three "eras": Era I was conventional 19th and early 20th century "Mechanical Medicine"; Era II was later 20th century "Mind-Body Medicine"; and Era III is 21st century "consciousness as energy" medicine that links people throughout the globe.