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I'm that physician that you go to, sort of your home base
so to speak that follows you for many years that knows your whole family,
so I'm that physician. It's what I I love to do
and actually my patience inspired me
to create the complementary and holistic medicine clinic
and I realized that I could, academic medicine should be a place
to explore all forms of healing. Who is sick medicine
involves a number of healing techniques
from supplements and herbs, to diets, to mind-body techniques like
yoga, Tai Chi, to hands-on techniques like massage therapy, foot
massage called reflexology,
to very ancient techniques like acupuncture which is part of traditional
Chinese medicine
or transcendental meditation.
And I really felt that holistic medicine
empowers my patients, helps them to bring
culture, to bring diversity, to bring
healing in many forms besides, you know, what we do.
It allows the patients to especially be empowered.
My colleagues, my young colleagues, they will be the future generation to know
that what their patients believe in, the way they
eat, their spirituality, all of that can be apart of their healing
and they can engage the patient and have a very motivated participant in their health
care.
I think there would be something that I think would be a tremendous gift
for that patient-physician relationship.