Dr. Jessica Schule grew up in La Ronge and graduated from Prince Albert's Carlton Comprehensive High School. (Rebel Med Northwest)

By Derek Cornet

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Seattle Met Top Doctor title awarded to LLRIB member and USask graduate

May 27, 2021 | 5:00 PM

From Saskatchewan to Seattle, Dr. Jessica Schule is making a name for herself in the field of medicine.

She was recently awarded the Seattle Met Top Doctor title for 2021 from Seattle Met Magazine. In an interview with larongeNOW, she said she feels blessed and privileged to be recognized as it shows her fellow colleagues in Washington state had enough confidence in her to give her their vote.

“To really come to a community where I started from the ground up, moving to Seattle, Washington,” she said. “There’s no friends, there’s no family, there was basically just a clean slate for me here, and it was the biggest and greatest opportunity for my scope of practice for naturopathic medicine and I haven’t looked back.”

A Lac La Ronge Indian Band member, Schule grew up in La Ronge and later completed Grade 12 at Prince Albert’s Carlton Comprehensive High School. She then attended the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon where she earned a Bachelors of Science in Biochemistry and afterward moved to British Columbia and completed a four-year medical program at the Boucher Institute of Naturopathic Medicine.

Schule joined Rebel Med Northwest about three and a half years ago and specializes in naturopathic family practice, women’s health, physical medicine, and healthy approaches to fitness, athletics, and weight loss. She will also soon be graduating from acupuncture studies in one month at Bastyr University.

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“We are a very integrative team and my employer and one of my mentors, Dr. Andrew Simon, has received the Seattle Met Magazine Top Doctor award for four years in a row,” Schule said. “We integrate and practice collaboratively together. We do referrals and we work really great as a team at being able to bring a good holistic, well-balanced approach to a patient.”

Dr. Jessica Schule went to university in Saskatchewan and British Columbia. (Facebook/Jessica Schule)

Schule mentioned it feels good to represent Indigenous Peoples and Canadians while practicing naturopathic medicine in the United States. She wanted to let aspiring doctors and professionals know the sky is the limit and they can achieve anything they put their mind to.

“Make sure you are well supported with people who love and support the idea that you have,” Schule said. “There will be failure along the way, but those failures or mistakes are opportunities to learn, and honestly a matter of being able to strengthen those goals and strengthen those dreams and strengthen yourself as a person as you’re trying to give your gifts and talents to the world.”

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derek.cornet@pattisonmedia.com

Twitter: @saskjourno