About this site

Who writes this

I’m Ricky Curtice, a lifelong Seventh-day Adventist and an engineer by trade, in both software and mechanical work. I am not a physician, and nothing on this site is medical advice.

For years I have written small studies for my own use, drawn from the Bible and Ellen White’s writings. This one caught the interest of friends and acquaintances in a way the others didn’t, and that response is what convinced me to refine it for a wider audience.

Why a thought experiment

The real subject here is not an imaginary degree. It is the healing work God entrusted to Adventists, the choices that narrowed or resisted it, and what faithfulness to it might look like now.

Imagining that work as a mature branch of medicine, with its own schools, physicians, and institutions, makes it easier to see as a whole. It also makes its temptations easier to see. The counterfactual is a mirror, not the authority. Scripture is.

Why this site looks the way it does

If Hygienic-Restorative Medicine had been part of ordinary life for a century, its governing board would want a website that reflects what it teaches. So this one tries to:

• put reading first, and print cleanly, because the physician is a teacher;
• stay light and fast, with no tracking, no ads, and nothing loaded from other sites, so it works on an old phone on a slow connection;
• work well with screen readers, keyboards, zoom, and high-contrast settings;
• avoid anything that looks like wellness marketing.

Every page also says, at the top, that the profession is imagined. The design borrows the feel of a clinic, but this is not one.

How it was made

I used AI tools as drafting and design aids for this site. I have reviewed and edited what is here, and I take responsibility for its ideas, claims, and tone.

Following along

New articles appear on the articles page, each with a printable PDF, and in the Atom feed for feed readers.