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Visits
with Dr. Wilson -- Modern Integrative Medicine
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Functional Medicine |
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The Healing Power of Nature |
Philosophy of Health & Medicine
I welcome my
patients/clients to feel free to talk about their deepest concerns,
including physical symptoms. I offer
both services that can help remove what is
holding you back from self-healing, and a variety of counseling and
mind-body techniques to help you deepen your conscious control of your life. Remember that I support your
self-healing process and that I do not focus on so-called disease labels.
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From
An Introduction to the Principles &
Practices of Naturopathic Medicine
[on
Amazon.com]
...Differentiating Individual Patient Needs: The differentiation of
patients is a necessary complement to treatment that helps encourage
patient compliance and recovery. The doctor needs to distinguish
among patients who need only fundamental health measures addressed,
patients who need their self-healing processes promoted, patients
who need physiological functions enhanced, patients who need their
disease process and symptoms dampened or mitigated, patients who
need aggressive intervention to suppress symptoms, and patients who
need referral to conventional medical care. Any one or any
combination of these treatment protocols may be applied in clinical
practice to any individual patient...
Naturopathic medical therapies work with the Vis medicatrix
naturae, not only to support the fundamentals of health, but
also promote or stimulate self-healing processes...
The naturopathic approach to case management is designed to allow
self-healing to occur with maximum support, not interference, from
the treatment plan.
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Prior to your first visit you will
have already begun to tell me what you would like to accomplish, either
through a phone call prior to scheduling or through information sent via
email.
The healing process: I offer to focus
on what it is that is most important for you, and also to advise you about
other possible obstacles that I discover that hold you back from moving
forward to improved health of body and mind. Your actual healing is under
the control of your personal
Vis medicatrix naturae (Healing Power of Nature) The healing process requires
your time and attention, and I offer to support you through the process.
21st Century Outcomes Tracking and Education: To assist the
healing process I have a secure password-protected Health Tracker, Library and
homework portal on the Internet:
Description.
Ongoing process: Effective health care requires feedback
about how you are doing. Rarely will one appointment remove all the
obstacles to healing. At each appointment we plan the next set of home care
and exercises. When ny concerns arise from a treatment, or if there are
questions, please contact me. Here are some thoughts about
Healthcare on a Budget.
In the Old Days: Doctors would expect
to see the patient over the course of months and years as the patient
learned new things and experienced treatments that would help their healing
process. This gave the patient ample time to explore their own responses to
the doctor's teachings and treatments. It also gave the doctor time to
observe the patient's individual way of responding, and to help the patient
to develop their own healing process.
Health Care Now and in the Future: The
concept of Integrative Medicine is new in the field of health care.
Bringing together different ways of understanding health, illness,
assessment, treatment and recovery of health is a monumental process. My
studies in techniques of practitioners from around the world -- and the
stories I've heard from them and their patients -- give me deep
insights into how much commonality there is of truly beneficial knowledge
of how to live healthy lives and regain vibrant health. I am dedicated to
helping bring peaceful coexistence and integration of different ways of
understanding life and health. Ideally, this means that you (the
patient/learner) will stay in contact with me over a long period of time so
that I can give you my observations and recommend options for your next
steps.
Integrative
Medicine holds the promise of access to a wide variety of effective ways to
understand health concerns and to deliver care without subservience to any one
school of thought. There
are several organizations now working on defining what Integrative
Medicine encompasses and this is encouraging.
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From
"The Principles of Integration"
In clinical
medicine, the principle of integration requires that the
practitioner integrate in the care of the patient all that is safe
and effective without subservience to one or more schools of medical
thought. It is one of the profound ironies of our time that the
truth and relevance of this simple - and all too self-evident -
principle has escaped the main physician body for so many decades.
This principle holds that all outcome studies must assess the
efficacy of integrated protocols in their entirety and not of
individual therapies. This is a point of crucial importance.
Empirical experience clearly demonstrates that clinical outcomes are
far superior when the benefits of individual therapies are
complemented by other therapies. The true benefits of integrated
protocols far exceed the sum of the component therapies.
In the United States, the principle of integration has largely been
ignored at an enormous cost to the sick...
-- Majid Ali, M.D. Past President of Capital
University of Integrative Medicine (www.MajidAli.com)
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