Ontario's Best Kept Medical Secret

Want to know Ontario's best kept medical secret?

I found this out when I booked an appointment with my family doctor for a consultation and possible  blood tests. He shipped me across the clinic to the nurse practitioner who worked in the same building. She was part of the local medical team.

She booked me a for a nice long appointment session and I talked with her about having cancer and my journey.  I rarely talk about natural treatments with my medical practioners.  Experience has taught me to keep my mouth shut.  My family doctor not only has a closed mind towards natural medical care, but is pretty dogmatic in putting anyone who raises the subject, straight.  But this time was different. She seemed receptive and genuinely interested in my 'personal protocol'.  So, I opened up.

I told her about taking maple syrup and baking soda.  She had never heard of it, so I explained the thinking behind it.  She listened attentively and even suggested that I put a pinch of ginger in it, for ginger, she said, has tumour fighting properties and maybe even tumeric for good measure.

At the end of our discussion, I thanked her and assured her that I would keep our conversation to myself.  "Why," she asked.

I told her that experience has led me to believe that people in the medical field are resistant to such subjects.


With that she said........."I am a nurse practitioner, and its in our mandate to discuss the extent of medical possibilities, and that includes chiropractory and naturopathy."

With that I asked her if I could count her to be one of my personal medical team. She smiled warmly and answered, "I would be glad to be included."

Interesting isn't it - that the Ontario College of Doctors and Physicians has such a strangle hold on the way we approach medicine in our province. But yet the Ontario Ministry of Health, in answer to public needs sidesteps the Ontario College and gives such a mandate to our nurse practitioners.