NUNM alum Paul Epstein, ND (’84), practicing in Connecticut, is featured in “Westport naturopath calls for patient empowerment in eldercare treatment.” Epstein emphasizes the role that seniors can assume in orchestrating their own health and wellness rather than becoming dependent on providers for all of their needs.

“Someone needs to be listening to them,” Epstein said, referring to elderly patients who often feel they are not being respected by their primary care physicians.  “Doctors say, ‘Here take an anti-inflammatory for arthritis.’ But they don’t know or understand or have time or inclination to get to know the patient and really care about the whole person, not just the diagnosis.”