I have the freedom of time. Not partaking in the sickcare model or working within the restraints of the third party payers, means I can focus on what the client needs and whatever is best for them as unique individuals. I don't have to prescribe to the insurance model which is what conventional medicine must do and why our healthcare system is currently failing so miserably.
I am not bound by rules and regulations that demand high numbers over quality of care. Rather than simply identify as quickly as possible the most pertinent complaint, labeling it and prescribing for it, I can listen and work to identify the underlying issue, but this requires really listening, getting really curious, and asking a lot of questions before drawing any conclusions. Certainly if you have any of the number of chronic diseases you were told at some point to alter your diet and increase your movement, but most often this is bypassed for pharmaceutical management. Clinicians in conventional medicine simply don't have the time to invest in truly educating their clients. Healthcare is not the priority. Not only do clinicians not have the time to educate you, but because it is so well recognized that education and counseling the consumer isn't attainable, this isn't the focus of our education. We learn to diagnose and prescribe and that's about the it of it; we aren't even educated in these modalities as part of our core training.
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Nutrition and lifestyle are first-line interventions. Essentially all medication warnings will tell you that diet and exercise should be tried first, because medications in themselves have risks, significant ones at that, but who has had legitimate education that equipped them to confidently make these lifestyle changes? And now I have to add that there are so few educational program that are legitimately written by experts in the profession; most are now written by artificial intelligence.
We aren't selling diet products or even supplements. We don't make money off of our diagnostic orders. We don't order thousands of dollars in tests. My focus is helping you identifying your underlying imbalance. Rather than just give you Ibuprofen for the pain in your toe, I'll help you pull the thorn out. Empowering through education, so you can heal yourself by creating lifelong changes you can truly integrate into your life, is where my practice differs. And time.