This website has been the brainchild of my sleepless nights for almost 6 years. At some point I realized that there was a lot up there that could do more good if I could just communicate it to the right folks at the right time and so here we are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You probably want to know a little bit more about me…I’m Beth.
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A little over ten years ago I became a mother and like many moms out there I made the choice to educate myself about health and wellness for the benefit of my family. I spent a lot of time reading about natural medicine; made some radical choices about food, childraring and housekeeping; and finally decided that I needed a formal education in human physiology.
Many people embark on a graduate degree to further their career goals and make themselves more marketable. Most people become doctors because they want to help people heal and while I have come round to the idea of clinical practice and my role as a healer in society, I think its important that you know that this is not where I started. Its important because the number one thing that makes me a good doctor is neither of those but rather an altogether more fundamental human quality…curiosity.
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I, foolish child that I am, in my late 30s decided to become a doctor because I wanted to KNOW how a body worked.
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I toyed with the idea of naturopathy. I have always known instinctively that our natural environment holds all the cures. I briefly considered getting an MD. After all, that’s the degree that garners the most respect in the healthcare industry. Modern science tells us so much about things we could never have dreamed of in the past and with the curiosity that drives me I revel in all that there is to see and learn from those academic endeavors. I have, however, found modern science to be a fickle friend in my pursuit of “knowing”. The science (as all good science does) tends to change and contradict itself even over the last 50 years. For my knowing about the human organism, I needed something more stable something with a longer history and so here we are. In the end, I chose Asian medicine because it was the most elegant way I had ever encountered of explaining the human organism. It is at once simple and comprehensive. My education in Chinese medicine was deeply rooted in the foundations of western science and medicine and so I get the best of both worlds.
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What I do know now is that “knowing” is a path, I know more today than I did when I started and my curiosity to better understand the puzzle of human pathology is what serves my patients best on their road to health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This website has been the brainchild of my sleepless nights for almost 6 years. At some point I realized that there was a lot up there that could do more good if I could just communicate it to the right folks at the right time and so here we are. You probably want to know a little bit more about me…I’m Beth. A little over ten years ago I became a mother and like many moms out there I made the choice to educate myself about health and wellness for the benefit of my family. I spent a lot of time reading about natural medicine; made some radical choices about food, childraring and housekeeping; and finally decided that I needed a formal education in human physiology.Many people embark on a graduate degree to further their career goals and make themselves more marketable. Most people become doctors because they want to help people heal and while I have come round to the idea of clinical practice and my role as a healer in society, I think its important that you know that this is not where I started. Its important because the number one thing that makes me a good doctor is neither of those but rather an altogether more fundamental human quality…curiosity. I, foolish child that I am, in my late 30s decided to become a doctor because I wanted to KNOW how a body worked. I toyed with the idea of naturopathy. I have always known instinctively that our natural environment holds all the cures. I briefly considered getting an MD. After all, that’s the degree that garners the most respect in the healthcare industry. Modern science tells us so much about things we could never have dreamed of in the past and with the curiosity that drives me I revel in all that there is to see and learn from those academic endeavors. I have, however, found modern science to be a fickle friend in my pursuit of “knowing”. The science (as all good science does) tends to change and contradict itself even over the last 50 years. For my knowing about the human organism, I needed something more stable something with a longer history and so here we are. In the end, I chose Asian medicine because it was the most elegant way I had ever encountered of explaining the human organism. It is at once simple and comprehensive. My education in Chinese medicine was deeply rooted in the foundations of western science and medicine and so I get the best of both worlds. What I do know now is that “knowing” is a path, I know more today than I did when I started and my curiosity to better understand the puzzle of human pathology is what serves my patients best on their road to health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":""},"categories":[35,34],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/elementalmedicine.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/AdobeStock_206509699-scaled.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbPomt-1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementalmedicine.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementalmedicine.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementalmedicine.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementalmedicine.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementalmedicine.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/elementalmedicine.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1063,"href":"https:\/\/elementalmedicine.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/1063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementalmedicine.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementalmedicine.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementalmedicine.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementalmedicine.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}