David J. Schleich, PhD I learned much later how very prescient Dr Lois Hare was. It was my second day on the job as the incoming president of the then-tiny CCNM in Toronto, when she called from her clinic in Nova Scotia to talk about the importance of research to the...
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25 Cubed Or Back to the Future, Again
David J. Schleich, PhD Back in my youth, that clever satirical magazine, Mad, was required reading for many boomers, most particularly among those of us who eschewed barbers. Alfred E. Neuman reassured all and sundry that what we worry unnecessarily about are things...
A Whole New Old Baumol’s Disease in Higher Education
David J. Schleich, PhD They learned that the tendency of costs to rise in labor-intensive sectors of the economy (such as higher education) happen alongside stagnant productivity. Higher Education workers don’t like to talk about productivity, triggered by the...
Sometimes a Great Teacher: What a literature professor taught me about the dysfunction of modern biomedicine
David J. Schleich, PhD Forty-two winters ago I was sitting in Dr Christopher Drummond’s Saturday morning Renaissance Literature seminar at the University of Alberta. The smokers in the class had their parkas draped over the backs of their seats for quick exits during...
Got Jobs: Giving Our ND Graduates a Leg Up
David J. Schleich, PhD My part in the discussion was to describe the growing presence of the natural medicine community in that Affordable Care Act (ACA) landscape. I was introduced as being part of the “naturopathic and integrative medicine” movement. To be sure, I...
Book Review: The Healer- A Guide to Spiritual Healing
Stacie Deyglio, ND The Healer: A Guide to Spiritual Healing As so many of us in practice know, the patients we see come to us for a reason. These reasons are not always implicitly clear, especially in the beginning of the relationship. The true nature of patient...
Book Review: Functional Gastroenterology: Assessing and Addressing the Causes of Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders
Stacie Deyglio, ND Functional Gastroenterology: Assessing and Addressing the Causes of Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders Functional disorders have a tendency to occur when the main abnormality creating the dysfunction is in how the body works or, more aptly, is...
Book Review: Feed Your Cells!
Stacie Deyglio, ND Feed Your Cells! Eating right takes more than just heeding the advice of a popular diet movement. It takes a change in mind-set, a personal paradigm shift to introspectively admit that there needs to be a transformation within the foundation of...
Oh, the Possibilities! Trustees, Clinicians, and Teachers on the Same Page
David J. Schleich, PhD Assembling the fundamentals was blisteringly hard work in those days – an era of huddling enclaves, fines, imprisonment, and detraction. Was getting SCNM on the move in 1993 any more complex for Michael Cronin than getting the program at NUHS...
Voices of Naturopathic Research: Interviews with NCNM, Bastyr, SCNM, & NUHS Research Faculty
Mark Swanson, ND What are 5 interesting things about the naturopathic academic research departments? I wanted to find out, so I invited the Research Faculty Chairs from National College of Naturopathic Medicine (NCNM), Bastyr University, National University of Health...