The key to success in holistic & functional medicine is simply to give better care than the other doctors in your area. Given how utterly dysfunctional mainstream medicine is, these days, it shouldn’t be hard, quipped Mark Menolascino, MD, at Holistic Primary Care’s 6th annual Heal Thy Practice conference.
A growing number of banks are creating specialized mortgage loan programs specifically for young doctors.
I have the greatest job in the world. I’m a doctor. I love my work and I look forward to walking to my office each day to take care of my patients.
Holistic Primary Care’s sixth annual Heal Thy Practice conference, on October 17-19, at the Renaissance Westchester Hotel, just north of New York City, will focus on clinical and practice management skills that empower practitioners to cultivate better health for their patients, their communities and themselves.
“In the near future, we won’t just be prescribing drugs, we’ll be prescribing apps,” says physician-futurist Daniel Kraft, MD.
Anyone involved in healthcare knows that patient self-reporting is the least reliable form of data collection. Yet in many cases, that—and a few lab measures—is all a clinician has to guide medical decisions.
How is the rollout of the Affordable Care Act affecting holistically-minded primary care clinicians?
“In the near future, we won’t just be prescribing drugs, we’ll be prescribing apps,” said physician-futurist Daniel Kraft, MD, at the recent NEXT Innovation Summit. Dr. Kraft said that a Star Trek-esque world of tricorder-enabled Dr. McCoy’s tailoring treatments and tweaking human biology based on real-time physiologic data is already here. ”It’s just not evenly distributed.” Dr. Kraft also reviewed 10 essential tech advances that should be part of any practitioner’s digital tool bag.
A few years ago, it would have been a pipe dream to suggest that a naturopathic physician might have a hand in shifting attitudes—and policies–of one of the nation’s largest health insurers.
LONG BEACH, CA — A wealth of new practice models are erupting in the field of integrative medicine, as more physicians and other practitioners seek ways of practicing that are more holistic and embracing of all aspects of their patients’ lives.
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