Medicine...Outside the Box

This past weekend I participated in the Integrative Healthcare Symposium in NYC. I don't attend many conferences in the US at all due to my busy lifestyle plus the fact that I am still uneasy about leaving my teenagers unattended to for several days. So I was ready to reinforce my professional groove with lectures and networking.

It was a great and exhausting weekend. I LOVED being surrounded by like-minded physicians who are, like myself, thinking and practicing outside the box. The goal is HEALTH. What we offer is CARE. This was a group of practitioners dedicated to the Art and Science of Wellness. We just want to see our patients get well and stay well.

There were so many wonderful speakers. Tierona Low Dog, MD, with a powerful talk on the environmental toxins that we live with and how they affect our long term health, and actually change our genetic code. VERY powerful and enlightening shit!!! It made me reassess my cellphone use, my drinking water, plastics in our home, etc. I was always conscious of this, but it is always great to be reminded and have those truths reaffirmed.
Alan Gaby MD with his new book on nutrition talking about the latest news on foods and supplements. I love listening to him speak, as I learned so much from him and his medical nutrition courses over 10 years ago. Don't know that I learned anything new, but it certainly reaffirmed my belief in Whole Food Dieting for me, my family, and my patients.
Well, I'm not going to bore you all the lectures that inspired me.

I suppose this past weekend just inspired me to keep practicing the wellness care that I offer. It reaffirmed my committment to the practice of Functional & Restorative Medicine, my commitment to affordable healthcare, my committment to teach patients that the greatest potential for healing lies within and not on a prescription pad.
Health is a process, a journey, attainable by all....in spite of whatever diagnosis label you have been given. Patients and doctors need to change the current thinking process. We all need to undo the the current habits of practice that we are so entrenched in....because in spite of all the MRIs, CT scans, and 50,000 medications on the market, we are becoming more and more unhealthy as time moves forward.
We are a pill popping society that wants immediate results. We are a glutinous society with little regard for our toxic environment. We want to do what we want, eat what we want, become less and less physically active, yet expect our bodies and minds to feel ok (and expect the doctors to fix it when we are not ok!!!).

Good News: I will be practicing at the renowned Eleven Eleven Wellness Center in NYC. I am very excited to be working alongside the FABUUUlous Frank Lipman, MD, the founder of the Center. It is a wonderful space and place of healing.
I will continue to see patients in Westchester one day a week, and of course, my web consults will continue.

Have a wonderful weekend everyone. The buds are starting to peek out. The smell of spring is in the air. Take it in.
Get headsets for those toxic cellphones that we keep glued to our bodies.
Don't microwave your plastics.
Eat organic ALWAYS.
Respect the earth, and it will respect us.
Peace and Love
Tina