For as long as Dr. Lena Kim can remember, she's always wanted to be a doctor. But she didn't want to work in a clinic or a hospital. No, she wanted to be more like Dr. Hiram Baker, the family doctor on the TV show Little House on the Prairie, who would travel by buckboard with his little black bag, visiting his patients in and around Walnut Grove.
But she realized that for all the progress made by conventional medicine, one practice that's since wafted into the ether of yesteryear was the notion of a doctor making house calls. Or one even giving you more than 15 minutes of their time in their office, for that matter.
“I did look into medicine and my experience with medicine [was] that my own doctor could only see me very rapidly and didn't necessarily spend the time with me I needed,” says Lena, who owns and operates True Nature Health Clinic. “The old-time family doctors were able to give the time. So I learned about naturopathic medicine and I thought it would be more of a vocation, rather than a job, in which I can actually get to know my patients. I can get to see families grow and thought it was a fit for me.”
