The Stillpoint Project

15,000 people die every month from hospital error (in the USA alone) and over 784,000 people die annually due to medical mistakes. Similar findings would be expected in Canada and the same for Europe. A turf war is waging over who shall rule the fate of the sick and this war is based on economics. There are some people calling for a widening of options. This group is still a minority.

Worrisome Trends

We are seeing more and more people who are suffering complications from having been poorly handled by both medical doctors as well as Naturopaths. The health care environment is heavily populated by practitioners making diagnosis and delivering remedies having only a minimal amount of training and experience.

Integrative Healing

The Stillpoint Project was founded in 2001 and is the inspiration of Dr. Greg Blaney and his wife Michelle. It is an umbrella organization overseeing several developments; a family based business that has grown to become a long standing health care resource for those who have tried and failed with other options.

Our work started in 1975 as Dr. Blaney began co-developing community based wellness programs in Canada and the United States. Dr. Blaney is now co-investigator in chronic illness with the University of British Columbia and is recognized by the government of Canada through the Scientific Research and Economic Development Program.

What do we do?

We bridge the more traditional scientific approach with the newer studies in naturopathic understanding. We take the time needed to provide the highest standard of care aimed not only at recovery but longevity and quality of life. Our alternative complementary therapies include osteopathy, craniosacral therapy, neural therapy, myofascial trigger point injection therapy, homotoxicology, antimicrobial therapies, and herbology. Dr. Blaney is a Lyme literate physician.

Medicine vs Institution

Medicine is defined as the science and practice of the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease, however the effectiveness of medicine as an institution is now faltering. The institution of medicine has become predominantly focused upon the measurement of data at the expense of the needs of the individual. Someone with anxiety, for example, and someone with sadness or someone with extreme phobia, can all be diagnosed with the same condition (depression) and given the same drugs.

The Stillpoint Center for the Healing Arts

The medicine of diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease must include an appreciation of the liveliness and mysterious play that is the course of each individual life. In this way, medicine and healing are a form of art and the practitioner’s quality of training as well as their inherent talent and sensitively all come to the fore, if there is to be successful treatment and full recovery.

Our medical practice operates out of The Stillpoint Center for the Healing Arts. We are located in the small village setting of Point Grey in Vancouver, British Columbia.

The New Paradigm

We are happy to report good success in working with people who are in the process of recovering from chronic illness and we continue to take encouragement from the newly emerging paradigm: the care of each individual is the care needed to influence us all.

“It’s much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.”

– Dr. William Osler, 1849 – 1919, Canada