Tag: SOAHAC

  • Traditional and Western Medicine: It’s not one or the other

    Traditional and Western Medicine: It’s not one or the other

    It took their daughter’s near-death experience for Samuel and Patricia Hearns of the Ojibwa First Nation to realize their indigenous culture meant more to them than they thought. About 10 years ago, the Hearns were at their daughter’s bedside at St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital. She was extremely ill from a cyst on her pancreas. The…