Informed consent. It's what we as a podcast advocate for--that you, the patient, have the right and the prerogative to make medical decisions for yourselves and your children and therefore have the right to be provided all the information to do so. In this short episode, we interview a mother who was informed and who completed a declination form for her newborn, but her directive was not followed. A nurse administered a vaccination in spite of the verbal directive and the signed form. What happened next? How do we prevent it from happening to others? And how do we get informed to soundly make these decisions? Tune in to find out!

Informed consent. It's what we as a podcast advocate for--that you, the patient, have the right and the prerogative to make medical decisions for yourselves and your children and therefore have the right to be provided all the information to do so. In this short episode, we interview a mother who was informed and who completed a declination form for her newborn, but her directive was not followed. A nurse administered a vaccination in spite of the verbal directive and the signed form. What happened next? How do we prevent it from happening to others? And how do we get informed to soundly make these decisions? Tune in to find out!

It's Thanksgiving week here in the US, so we kick off this episode of current event coverage with some gratitude before diving in to some headlines and information you can't afford to not know. Plus, since Black Friday-Cyber Monday are just days away, we share some items, companies, brands and deals we feel aligned with and that we can highly recommend.

In this week's episode, it is our pleasure to introduce you to Dr. Charley Cropley, ND--a highly respected Naturopathic Physician and teacher with 45 years of clinical experience and more than 50,000 patient visits. He is considered a thought leader and pioneer of Naturopathic Behavioral Medicine, known for his profound understanding that the ability to heal begins with looking at entrenched behavioral patterns which, as he says, are such an obvious root cause of illness, and working directly with them can facilitate lasting and permanent healing. We love learning from Dr. Charley and discovering even more about how our bodies are created to heal themselves, and we know you will, too!