Medicine is Personal
With graduation only weeks away [really, weeks!] I have been giving a lot of thought to one of my own clinical questions: How has Naturopathic Medicine improved the lives the […]
Category Archives: Naturopathic Medicine
How the Heart Beats
A Danish study, recently published in Heart, has found that resting heart rate is an independent predictor of mortality. The study followed 2,798 subjects for 16 years and over the […]
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 […]
Growing Your Health
This quarter I started seeing patients as a “Primary Clinician.” This means that I am the one in the room who is interviewing my patient, performing physical exams and ultimately, […]
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 […]
April Showers: Sweet Woodruff and Chamomile Tea
You might be wondering why it’s taken me so long to post my Tea of the Month. Or you might not be wondering at all [you've been too busy enjoying […]
The Higher the Better
I’m talking about heels. High Heels, specifically. What girl doesn’t love a new pair of shoes? They make you feel beautiful and glamourous, like you’re a celebrity in the making. […]
