Who I Serve
I work with a wide variety of people who have physical and emotional health issues that they want to resolve by natural means. My patients have found that drugs and surgery alone to not provided the vitality and health they believe is possible and strongly desire. What they all have in common is a strong desire to be the best people they can be and feel that they can best achieve this by natural means.
Are some of these statements true for you?
My doctor seems to think he is some sort of medical deity and won't listen to me or answer my questions. He doesn't seem to care what my past experience has been with the treatment he wants to prescribe. He spends five minutes with me, writes a prescription or two and goes out the door.
My doctor is into prescribing drugs to mask symptoms and doesn't seem to be interested in finding what is causing the symptoms in the first place. I believe there are causes for my symptoms and I want to solve the cause rather than suppressing the symptoms.
I want to learn how to take care of my own health and decrease my dependency on the conventional health care system which is becoming more expensive, risky, and impersonal. I'd really like to find a doctor who will teach me how to become a specialist in my own health care.
I want to use natural remedies and health enhancers whenever possible but I'm overwhelmed by the flood of claims, counterclaims, information, misinformation and disinformation that is always coming at me. I need someone who has the knowledge and experience to help me separate the help from the hype and tell me which brands of supplements are safe and reliable.
I'm concerned about the high costs of prescription drugs and the increasing risks of serious side effects. I don't like taking a drug, getting a side effect that has to be managed with another drug, which has side effects, which require another drug. There has to be a better way.
I want to use bioidentical hormones, which I understand are much safer and often work better than the non-bioidentical, patented kind. I'm having trouble finding a doctor who will prescribe bioidentical.
I have a whole list of hypothyroid symptoms and my life is a struggle but my blood tests are normal. I want to find a doctor who will consider that it may be the tests and not me that are inadequate. I want more than prescription for an antidepressant and/or advice to take a vacation. I've tried both and they have never worked.
I've been depressed for a long time and am on an antidepressant. They help the depression but I hate feeling emotionally and sexually numb. I don't think my depression is due to a Prozac deficiency. I want to find a doctor who will find out what is causing the depression and can help me free myself from the cause, the depression, and the drug.
I'm sixty something and concerned that my memory and mental sharpness aren't what they once were. Nursing homes are OK to visit but I wouldn't want to live there. I want to know what I can do now to have my best chance of getting my mind sharp and clear again and keeping it that way until my last breath.
You are likely to be successful working with me if
You love to learn and particularly to learn how to take excellent care of yourself so that your vitality, health, and joy in living greatly increase.
You enjoy working with a physician in an equal partnership, co-creative relationship, somewhat like a quarterback and a coach work together.
You are willing to take primary responsibility for your health. I gladly take my part of that responsibility but if you are looking for a doctor who will just prescribe a pill and all you have to do is swallow it, I'm not for you.
You have a strong desire to be the best you can be, body, mind, and spirit. I love to work with people who have that desire and go for it.Now that you know what kind of patients I work with, the issues I help them resolve, and what my patients need to do to ensure their success, click on this link to learn more about How I Work.