Winter Maladies: Whopping Cough
This quarter I am doing a Preceptorship in the Emergency Room at a local hospital. I’m pretty excited. I think this experience will help me refine my diagnostic skills and […]
Category Archives: Alternative Medicine
Stress Mess
It is a sensation all too familiar to me. A sense of sheer panic when, after hours upon hours of studying, I simply can not clear my mind enough to […]
Happy Birthday, Dr. Bastyr
The namesake of my University would have been 100 years old today, and I think this would have made him proud: I first saw this video on May 5, 2012 […]
Green Allopathy
When a patient enters the teaching clinic with an acute presentation, the natural reaction of student clinicians is to think of a remedy that will palliate the symptoms they are […]
Beat by Beat
Last week I started a course in Pulse diagnosis with one of my mentors at Bastyr University. Pulse diagnosis is a technique that has historically been used in Ayurveda and […]
Saltwater Cures Everything
The BIG reason I traveled to Ireland was to study seaweed. This idea grew out of the passing mention of Irish seaweed baths from my travel buddy, Em. From there, […]
Simple/Medicine
Lately it seems like my life is being pulled in too many directions. This is entirely my fault. I have a tendency to overcommit. To do everything I can, for […]
Winter Blues
Winter Storm, 2010 Winter is settling in. The air is crisp and cool. I have a constant urge to be warm (and turn up the heat, against Matt’s wishes!). I […]
