INTEGRATIVE / HOLISTIC
AN INTEGRATIVE & HOLISTIC APPROACH TO MEDICINE
Integrative medicine is healing-oriented and emphasizes the centrality of the physician-patient relationship. It focuses on the least invasive, least toxic, and least costly methods to help facilitate health by integrating both allopathic and complementary therapies. These therapies are recommended based on an understanding of the physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual aspects of the individual:
Emphasizes relationship-centered care
- Integrates conventional and complementary methods for treatment and prevention
- Involves removing barriers that may activate the body’s innate healing response
- Uses natural, less invasive interventions before costly, invasive ones when possible
- Engages mind, body, spirit, and community to facilitate healing
- Maintains that healing is always possible, even when curing is not
The process of becoming a patient at the Integrative clinic involves:
The first step is filling out the intake form, which is about 40 pages long. Your physician needs to know about your lifestyle, including what you eat, your hobbies, medical history, family history and more. This allows your physician to order the appropriate labs. Your first visit will be after the initial lab results are ready. The first visit usually takes 2-3 hours. The fees for appointments: Initial visit: $849 , Any follow up visits: $424. The initial fee is due before reviewing the intake form. The fee for the labs should be paid to each lab directly and is not included in the provider’s fee. There are labs that are not covered by any insurance company and the patient is responsible to pay for those when needed.
