"The most effective approach to achieving optimal wellness is to identify the source of the problem and restore hormone balance...including balancing excess adrenaline."

—Michael Platt, MD

The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients with the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.

—Thomas A. Edison

Doctors give drugs of which they know little… into bodies of which they know less…for diseases of which they know nothing at all

—Voltaire

Obamacare

3 05, 2013

Primary Care Doctors: An Endangered Species

May 3rd, 2013|Categories: Hormonal Balance and Wellness, Wellness|Tags: Obamacare, doctor shortage, Functional medicine|

At dinner tonight, my wife asked me how I saw the future of medicine. Her concern surrounds the anticipated doctor shortage brought on by a combination of a growing population along with an increased disenchantment felt by doctors. The prospect of doctors opting out of primary care is one of the anticipated results caused by the trickle-down effect of ObamaCare. My wife feels that computers will take over patient care. She may not be wrong when you consider that statistically, when a doctor walks into the treatment room to see their patient, within 18 seconds they knows what drug [...]

19 08, 2012

Obamacare: We Are Not Ready

August 19th, 2012|Categories: Hormonal Balance and Wellness|Tags: improving healthcare, Obamacare, physician education|

I will not go into the pros and cons of the Affordable Healthcare Act. The name itself is an oxymoron because the last thing it will be is "affordable". You cannot take on 30 million more people into our healthcare system until you fix the present system. In addition, matters will be made worse by the fact that they anticipate that thousands of doctors will opt out of medicine completely because of widespread disgruntlement over the provisions of the act. Thousands more will become concierge doctors, thereby avoiding those new arrivals. Interestingly, making healthcare available to all is actually [...]