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Dr. Mercedes:
When I went to medical school, and started doing clinical rotations, I started noticing
that there was a lot of medicine being given out to patients, and that wasn't the medicine,
I envisioned myself practicing. I just internally felt that our body is so perfect and before
this time people were living healthy. And yet all these drugs were not around. So something
inside me told me that there had to be a better way to treat all of these diseases that were
appearing and not do it through the drug pharmaceutical route. One of the reasons that I have an integrated
practice, really evolved from all the obstacles in my personal life and my husband's. As I
said before, I had a weight problem. I used to be a size 22, by the time I was 19 years
old. My whole life, I struggled with it. I tried every single diet in the book. Also
my husband already had high blood pressure and high cholesterol, and as a typical male
did not like taking medication. And so my desire was really to help people like ourselves
be able to do these things without drugs. And when we were able to help ourselves. You
know, today I've been this size for a number of years. My husband has been without blood
pressure problems without taking any medication for over five years, because we have been
able to overcome those obstacles I am encouraged to continue to do that with my own patients,
and they like it to. During part of my training, I also went to
dermatologists, ear nose and throat doctors. At the time, in my training, just coincided
with the new things Botox was coming in, fillers were coming out. I was seeing these doctors
practice that. I just fell in love, it was like instant gratification. Not only for me
but for the patients, one of the reasons why I enjoy doing integrative medicine. What I
call beauty inside and out. You can really see the changes in people when they start
working on themselves. It could be something very small, somebody came in and just started
doing Botox. They so better about themselves. They feel that they look better. They want
to go on a continue maybe start eating better eye to my patience I have a saying. Our body
reflects the chaos in our lives. You may have summaries in very good shape physically or
looks in good shape physically, but they look very tired or drawn. When you start correcting
those things for them they feel better about themselves. They smile more, your body, it
releases more endorphins, our body really starts feeling better. You will be able to
deal with stress better. You'll get sick less It's a very circular process, that is why
I enjoy doing the kind of medicine that I do.\par
Monica Kruger:
Beauty comes from within, so those who are healthy on the inside, it's going to show
on the outside. It's not just the outside beauty. The things that I do are not just
fluffy *** things, many people think getting a facial is just a glamorous thing, it is
not. You want to keep your skintight, your skin adheres to the muscle your muscle adheres
to the bones with a facial, and a strong facial. That's what I do, so, I keep up the health
of a person's skin on the outside. A doctor keeps it healthy on the inside. So we worked
together.
Cheryl:
I am a nurse and nurses tend to give of themselves and not take care of themselves. And when
I turned 40. I continue to do this. Now I'm starting to see the signs of age on my face
is, so I decided to invest some time into myself. So I came in, the very first day I
came, they just made me feel at home. Everyone was so nice. So friendly they go above and
beyond to help you, to explain to you. I just knew then, actually, that was October of 2007
and I've been coming ever since been driving 45 minutes to get here, because it's worth
it. I've always had plump lips, as we age, they get thinner. So I come to Dr. Mercedes,
and she was telling me the difference that she could do to help make the skin look healthier,
and to reduce the fine lines around here. So between proper nutrition, proper skin care
regime. It has made a tremendous difference on my skin. I have people all the time say
you are different, what have you done, change your hair color its because they haven't seen
in awhile. They can't quite figure it out what it is, that's different, but they know
something is different, and I usually just say yes I changed my hair color. It wasn't
until I started feeling better, and felt more energetic and realized just how tired I felt
the time before. It wasn't until I started getting compliments from people. You look
rested you look so good what are you doing. I started to realize, because when you look
at yourself in the mirror. You don't see that is when others that haven't seen you in a
while. Come out and make those comments. You start realizing oh it's working and the more
you do it, the more results you see. Oh yes. I'm thrilled. I love Dr. Mercedes.
Dr. Mercedes:
I enjoy doing consultations, or one on one visits with my patients. I'm a very curious
person by nature. I like things being explained to me. I don't like people just telling me
what they are going to do to me. So when patients come to me they know that they're going to
get a thorough review of everything that's going on with them. Not just focusing on the
one complaint. They're coming in to talk about everything.
Wendy:
It really does help to be able to know that I can come here. And I can take care of my
beauty, and at the same time, if I have a personal issue that I want to discuss with
her about either female problems or a chest pain or a lump. I know that she's qualified
to do that. Or that she can point me in the right direction. If people come here and are
not feeling that inner beauty. They can also achieve that here, because Dr. Mercedes is
a family doctor also, who I have seen have had great success with weight loss. People
with cardiovascular blood-pressure issues and things like that. So you have to start
at that inner beauty. That's your foundation, beauty is my foundation to everything.
Bianca.
I knew about her because I live in Westchase. I was reading about her. She's very popular
and then I say, okay, I will go and talk to her and see how is she. And then I read about
her biography. And how she studied medicine. Seems like a very tough person straight to
the point. I liked his kind of person.
Sally:
My first experience was when she came in. She looked at my lips and she said she is
an artist. I tell everybody. I'm not embarrassed when I've gone and the department store and
put my make up on the girl say. I really like your lips, and I say, Dr. Mercedes. Everybody's
interested in finding somebody that's good.
Dr. Mercedes:
Because of how quickly technology advances we believe very strongly in number one: continuing
education and number two: continuing to invest in to the latest technology to bring that
to our patients, and our patients know if any new machine comes out. They will know
that I'm either researching or I have it. I will research it for them I am very quick
to tell them. If that machine is good. I don't have it but yes it is good find it and go
and do it somewhere else. A lot of people, you know, are confused about what a medical
spa will look kind of a practice we have here. One of the things I like to emphasize is that
I am a practicing physician. I am the doctor here. When patients come they do see Dr. Mercedes.
They don't see a salesperson that is going to pitch them things to sell them this is
not a traditional, or what you would see at a medical spa, this is a medical office run
by a physician.
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