If you are considering a change in the way to receive medical treatment but cannot figure out how to do it, let me enlighten you to the private, pay-as-you-go style of functional medicine that has attracted various groups of patients. I can share my current experience of those types of patients flocking to the virtual office. I think you all will find the value in having your own private physician in your back pocket to call at any time. That is what I am… your own personal physician. I am seeing a wide array of patients who are:
- Having difficulty getting into the PCP or any physician and may have urgent needs.
- On the run and do not have the time to make an in-person visit.
- Needing help with acute issues and cannot afford downtime.
- Not sick but not well.
- Considering nutritional and other detox strategies.
- Not understanding the current treatments or plans and have many specialists weighing in.
- Embracing a style or medical approach that seems ahead of the standard of care.
- Asking to avoid a waiting room full sick people or a long line.
- Collaborating with me for a more advanced style of diagnoses and treatment
- Hormone deficient and receptive to strategies that may include bioidentical hormones.
- Not willing to wear a mask any more!
- Working with their thyroid health.
- Uninsured or minimally insured, because no insurance is needed when you pay as you go.
- Enjoying a medical paradigm where the chiropractors or naturopaths or energy workers are embraced as part of the team.
- Searching for a judgment-free approach that meets the health goals where they are.
- Supporting “local” including local compounding pharmacists.
- Sharing a family lifestyle approach that helps children learn healthy habits.
- Understanding that food can be nutrition and as medicine.
- Asking about how the environment has potentially impacted or toxified their health
- Investigating their nagging gut issues.
- Requesting immediate prescribing help for their mental health issues and using more than one modality to treat.
- Open to an easy, engaging physician-patient relationship where they steer the ship and are at the center of care.
- Interested in what root causes maybe at the core of their conditions.
- Receptive to using early and off-label medicines and other treatments together with a physician who understands all ways to prevent severe disease.
- Allowed to express your approach to early treatment and acute care without mandates.
- In need of processing exemptions when appropriate.
- Demanding help to understand pediatric health.
- Crossing over to the functional approach to chronic autoimmunity, diabetes, cancer and cardiovascular health (to name a few)
The possibilities are endless and the discussions and treatment always evolve as functional medicine advances. Join your friends and family who have figured out the key to best health. Make your appointment now!
