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Integrated practice really is the terminology
of integrative: being able to bring things in.
Hi, I'm Bruce Fong, I'm the medical director here at Sierra Integrative Medical
Center.
I grew up in this. I guess you could say I started off as a punk kid running around making
noise in the office.
I went to school in Southern California at the
Western University of Health Sciences. I graduated with my doctorate in osteopathy in
1997.
I did a one year rotating internship in Florida
and ultimately I did three years of internal medicine in Las Vegas.
Then I ended up in 2001 back at my parents clinic again
here in Reno Nevada.
Staying true to that philosophy of trying to help the body to heal itself,
we try to promote things like the immune system help the body to clean itself out,
and ultimately, bring the person back around.
Your history and physical, hey, that is still the most important thing. I was taught that in medical school and it
applies across the board.
But to enhance that knowledge in what's going on with a patient you can do all
kinds of
testing, but we also have other means like feedback devices that can help give
us some indication what's going on. We don't ever diagnosed with those but they
give us
additional methodologies to try to figure out what's going on with our
patients.
The bottom line is the patients develop a report with us,
and we try to not only maintain that report
but just nurture it along so that the patients not only
get treated but they learn how to take care of themselves as they go along as well.