Let's Celebrate the official Naturopathic Medicine Week! (Read the whole post for your personal invitation!) Last month the U.S. Senate declared October 7-11th, 2013 to be Naturopathic Medicine Week, in honor of the naturopathic physicians who are on the forefront of wellness and preventive medicine. For unfamiliar...
So what in the world is a naturopathic physician anyways? Honestly, I get this question a lot and it can sometimes be difficult to answer in just a few sentences. Sometimes I joke that I am a hippie doctor, or that I have an "ND"...
{Authors note: I wrote this post in May 2011 when I was a fourth-year naturopathic medical student at Bastyr University. Since that time the curriculum of both University of Washington and Bastyr have changed significantly. As of 2012, Bastyr's ND program has switched to a...