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Signal vs Noise: Uterine Fibroids and Menopause Hormone Therapy
Signal vs Noise: Uterine Fibroids and Menopause Hormone Therapy Uterine fibroids sit at the center of one of the noisiest decision-making spaces in...
What We Think About Gestational Diabetes: Why Pattern Recognition Matters More Than a Single Test
What We Think About Gestational Diabetes: Why Pattern Recognition Matters More Than a Single Test Gestational diabetes is often treated as something...
What We Think About Gout: A Pattern-Based Approach to Nutrition and Risk Reduction
What We Think About Gout: A Pattern-Based Approach to Nutrition and Risk Reduction Gout is often approached as a problem of dietary excess and...
Clinical Orientation: Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis
Clinical Orientation: Hashimoto's Thyroiditis About These Clinical Orientations Clinical guidelines and research updates are essential. They help...
Clinical Orientation: Autism
Clinical Orientation: Autism About These Clinical Orientations Clinical guidelines and research updates are essential. They help clinicians...
The Hidden Cost of Outdated CE: Why Traditional Continuing Education is Failing NDs
The Hidden Cost of Outdated CE: Why Traditional Continuing Education is Failing Naturopathic Doctors You leave every conference feeling the same...
Unbiased Clinical Intel: The Case for Independent Funding
Unbiased Clinical Intel: The Case for Independent Funding Naturopathic Doctors are trained early in their schooling to ask questions about...
Doctor Habits and Our Annual Subscription
Doctor Habits and Our Annual Subscription If you’ve ever made a doctor’s appointment about a concern, only to have the concern disappear before your...
How keyword-based search is killing your AI search results
How keyword-based search is killing your AI search results (and what to do instead) In 2024, The Confident Clinician was the first-to-market with an...
How we generate content at The Confident Clinician
How we generate content at The Confident Clinician At The Confident Clinician, we recognized the challenges with traditional continuing education,...
Clinical & Business Insights
When the Gut and Brain Stop Communicating Well: Don’t Jump To a Test
When the Gut and Brain Stop Communicating Well One of the most difficult moments in digestive care happens when a patient has significant symptoms...
The Frictionless Patient Experience
Even when patient appointments go well, there are often dozens of touchpoints between the moment a patient first hears your name and when they...
Rethinking Salt, Sport, and Asthma: Clinical Insights for the Weekend Athlete
Electrolyte replacement strategies have become a default recommendation in recreational sport and are highly promoted online for health...
Patient on Prednisone? Don’t Miss These Baseline Labs
Glucocorticoids like prednisone are a cornerstone in the treatment of inflammatory and autoimmune conditions. They offer fast, reliable symptom...
Running Cortisol? Don’t miss this second test
Testing cortisol has been a clutch move in integrative medicine, but are we doing it correctly to give your patients the most insight into their...
Scale to Prevail
In old-school medicine, doctors performed house calls. That practice evolved into patients going to the doctor's office. The doctor scaled to have a...
Getting “Up and Out” of your clinic
Clinic owners have a unique disadvantage putting pressure on their hourly rate. When they aren’t seeing patients, they are managing other people’s...
If it’s not a no, it’s a maybe.
I’ve been watching the trends in patient-booking-behaviour for 15 years. It’s always fascinated me how people make decisions, when they ask for help...
The Metric With The Most
Unsurprisingly, most clinicians I work with are highly analytical. We tend to be analytical in our decision making, analytical in our natural...
Cancel Culture. Enforcing your cancellation policy with compassion.
One of the most dreaded conversations in private practice is the one where a cancellation policy must be enforced. Admin team members will...
The most dangerous kind of health collab
The most dangerous kind of health collab Most clinicians practicing today believe that interdisciplinary care is better than the sum of its...
Bra Prescriptions for Mastalgia. Is this part of your job?
Mastalgia can be a difficult symptom to treat in patients. It may be cyclical or not, and patients can have difficulty lining up their breast pain...
Do you even need BCAAs Bro?
If you’ve paid any attention to the pendulum swing of supplements for muscle and performance, you have likely become dizzy (our recommendations go...
Bigger Fish or Bigger Pond?
Naturopathic Doctors are encouraged from day one of their training to consider the unique, the rare and the treatment-resistant patients as their...