This study analyzed how physicians with cancer use their personal experience as narratives to evaluate and reflect on their own cancer treatment. Physicians use evidence-based medicine to employ a mutually exclusive framework that explains evidence-based medicine and local knowledge, and they regard local knowledge as unscientific or irrational. However, after receiving a diagnosis of cancer, physicians transition from the role of a doctor to that of a patient. This provides a rare opportunity to reconsider the relationship between evidence-based medicine and local knowledge. They have a chance to voice their local knowledge. In sum, through personal experience and a change in medical perspective, these wounded healers not only reflect on the discipline of evidence-based medicine but also experience its coexistence with local knowledge.