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With the soaring costs and total frustration of today’s healthcare people must learn more about alternative medicine. We find ourselves waiting in crowded rooms full of coughing sneezing sick people as we discreetly read three month old gossip magazines.  A door separating us from the one who’s advice we’ve come to seek. Every head in the room looks up each time the door squeaks and a name is called.  Relieved when our name is announced we rush to gather our belongings and follow a nurse in brightly colored scrubs to a door with a sign that reads exam room #2.

“What are you here for today?” the nurse inquires as she pushes up your sleeve and velcro’s the blood pressure boa constrictor around your arm.  Suppressing your desire to insult her inability to read the extensive paper work you just spent thirty minutes filling out, clearly explaining your reason for the days visit, you reiterate what ails you.  “The Doctor will be right with you.” The nurse assures you as she exits the room.

You sit on the long leather table partially covered in supposedly sterile crinkly paper staring at a door knob that never turns.  That’s when you realize, this is not exam room #2, it is waiting room #2.  All of this so the ever-so powerful prescription writer can grace us with his or her presence for thirty seconds.

Of course there are situations where enduring the above is inevitable, however there are so many natural cures for so many problems.  A vast majority of naturopathic Physicians in
Portland are willing to help you learn to better care for yourself.  Imagine knowing what to give to your child as they pull at an ear in pain or halting that bladder infection before it gets out of hand. So many easy to use remedies are available at your local whole foods market.  I say that the Doctor that replaced my Father’s heart valve is a genius and although I wish some physicians of great ability would improve their bed side manor I am grateful for the gift of life they offer so many.

In contrast many of us are not in these dire situations and we CAN help ourselves.  If you are overwhelmed by the thought of helping yourself, do yourself a favor and seek the advice of a naturopath that will help you learn to care for you and your family.  Don’t be dependant on the pharmaceutical supporting doctor whose advice is which over the counter crap to take next.  Stop allowing the medical profession to overload you and your children’s bodies with unnecessary antibiotics.  Start talking to each other right here right now, share your knowledge and save some of those co-pays.