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Thanks Priority One! - from FNM Project
June 22, 2009
Danielle S. Baumgart, PresidentPriority One Nutritional Supplements
2681 Delta Ring Road Ferndale, WA 98248
Dear Danielle,
We are once again grateful for your donation of $1,000 toward Priority One’s Bronze $5,000 contributions over five years. This greatly helps benefit all who are involved in realizing the vision of the Foundations of Naturopathic Medicine Project. We humbly send our regards to Priority One and thank you for the support you give us.
As you well know, the FNM Project is a highly anticipated collaboration of naturopathic medicine’s many thought leaders and practicing naturopathic physicians to produce a singular reference point for physicians, students, clinicians, and medical professionals. By laying the foundations for naturopathic medicine’s philosophy, theories, principles, and practices through an academically-sound textbook, the profession will advance naturopathic medical education. Priority One’s Bronze “Prevention and Wellness” sponsorship helps us along the way to codifying and synthesizing the comprehensive knowledge within the field of naturopathic medicine.
I understand that Priority One was present in force with Kacey and Joe Whitman and George Bynum at the 2009 NorthWest Naturopathic Physicians Convention this spring. I was especially pleased to hear about the essay research requirements for the Bastyr University students to compete for the Priority One naturopathic student scholarship. Sharon Fisher, FNM’s Project Manager appreciated meeting George, Kacey and Joe to become acquainted.
Danielle, I am pleased to be back for three days a week for now. It is good to be working with the FNM Project again. It is wonderful to know that you and Priority One stand with us. Your heartfelt words quoted on the homepage of your website are encouraging for these times:"Never trade your morals for your goals: We believe those who compromise what they believe in to satisfy their goals wind up dissatisfied with their accomplishments.” Clearly our shared accomplishments are solidly based in integrity. Priority One’s continued support is incredibly motivating and sustaining to us.
With our deepest gratitude and warmest regards,Pamela Snider, NDExecutive and Senior EditorDavid J. Schleich, PhDPresident, National College of Natural MedicineAssociate Editor, Foundations of Naturopathic Medicine Project

Health Care Debate

Health Care Reform! How many times a day do I hear this call to arms? It would seem almost funny if lives were not involved. I've had the privilege to be part of a reform for most of my life, one that has opened eyes, and ears to the wonderful medicine cabinet we call the earth.

My first experience with Health Care Reform, involved sitting at the feet, literally of some of the most impressive physicians in the world. When I was a small child, I would attend meetings with my father, quietly listening to or about ones that became my heroes:
Dr. Linus Pauling( Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Peace Prize,)
Dr. John Bastyr , (The father of Naturopathic Medicine)
Dr. William Mitchell ( One of the founders of Bastyr University)

There are so many, many more, some old some young, we will be exploring each of these greats later in the year. Please feel free to leave your comments and thoughts about these or your own GREAT reformers in Health Care, because least we forget the real purpose of medicine, Physician do no Harm, to our people, or our planet.

This is for all of you who through your personal integrity are truly Health Care Reformers! Both Physician and Patient a like. Your choice is your Life.

My Experience

I've been thinking of so many ways to start this dialog, but what better way than with personal experience, for what more do I really know, than what I have seen, felt, and heard?

Background: I'm the oldest of a family of two, my brother and I grew up in a small farming town in NW Washington State, one of those towns you see on TV where the kids ride their bikes, and everything is closed on Sunday. We used to joke that we were the only town in the Guinness Book of World Records for the most churches per capita. I'm not sure if it was true but it was always funny to us. We were also a border town, so when people would drive through looking for an open store, or gas station we would laugh, and say.... It's Sunday! Like that was the only answer that they needed. Don't ask why we were talking to strangers, like I said it was like one of those sleepy little towns that you think only survived in peoples memories or on Nick at Nite. Did I mention it had a Dutch Theme, with fake facades an all? Anyways, I start here because the more I contemplate my viewpoints on health matters, the more I realize that I have always been independent, wanting to find things out for myself, never quite fitting into the mold of what I should be doing. Lynden www.Lyndenwa.org (my hometown) must have played a role in this, because here everything from the height of your grass, to when you would be able to eat out or fill your tank was regulated by the community norm. Sometimes what is "normal" is not always what is good for you. Take Lynden, it all but shuttered when the tourists stopped coming, and the business's couldn't sustain with the blue laws forcing their hands. What was normal and worked for so many years had to change. Were the old conventions wrong? Or were they right and everything else was wrong? I don't know, but it changed, and Lynden is still around, vibrant, with manicured lawns, windmills, and Dutch facades, and here I am remembering the good old days when Sunday's were quiet, and kids rode their bikes in the middle of the road, and talked to strangers.