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There’s a good reason many people are moving away from the typical, modern healthcare model. In all honesty, they don’t feel seen or heard. Patients are exhausted having to wait for hours and then receiving no answers. Frequently, they leave with one or two prescriptions with brief instructions to return in six months for a follow-up appointment. There is an answer to this conundrum: personalized healthcare that caters to your unique needs and health goals. We’ll look at how personalized healthcare can benefit you in numerous ways, some of which you might not expect.
In many cases, customized healthcare has shorter wait times. Functional practitioners respect your time and theirs. If you’re given an appointment, you typically aren’t sitting in a lobby with tons of sick people, waiting to talk to your doctor for a few brief moments.
One of the problems today is that many people postpone their appointments because they dread having to wait. Most of us have busy schedules and we are already short on time as it is. When we make the effort to see someone for our health and we’re still left waiting it feels a lot like disrespect. (2)
Let’s be upfront about how this works. You pay good money to see a doctor, whether that means out-of-pocket costs or high insurance premiums. The last thing you want is to feel like a number and that your issues don’t matter to the one person paid to care about you.
Patients want compassion. They want to know their issues are important. The problem with modern healthcare is that many people report not feeling their concerns are taken seriously and they often feel dismissed by their physicians. (3)
Personalized healthcare is about showing compassion and getting to the root causes of your concerns.
If you think back to your last few doctor visits, how often were you given medications to treat the actual problem? Most likely, it was a different scenario. Somehow modern trends have changed the dynamic of healthcare and now medical professionals are often more concerned about addressing the symptoms than treating the causes. What’s more, these conditions are often targeted with dangerous pharmaceutical medicines rather than natural methods that can be as or more effective.
Personalized medicine is about using pinpoint accuracy to treat healthcare. Functional physicians can use specific tests to learn what has caused your health issues. You may have bloodwork, physical exams, and an assessment that requires some time. Your holistic practitioner doesn’t want to give you a few minutes and send you on your way. Rather than prolonging issues, we want to find the cause and treat it so that you can regain control of your life and thrive.
One of the unique features of natural medicine is that the goal can be to prevent health issues and reverse many of them. Every person’s environment and situation is different so we don’t work the way many standardized clinics do. You are not a number, but an individual who deserves time and care.
So, how does that work? We take the time and use our experience based on data, to find the root causes of your health condition. We also work with you to learn your health goals so we can customize our approach, This includes gathering biomarkers and genetic factors that many primary and even specialty clinics do not. If you’ve ever been told that natural medicine isn’t accurate, we beg to differ. You can learn more about how our functional, personalized healthcare program Nutricore works here.
Often, our testing will illustrate specific deficiencies and allow us to provide personalized supplements that target your needs. Vitamin deficiencies can cause all kinds of problems and wreak havoc on your health. (4) These can range from fatigue, difficulty concentrating, weakness, gastrointestinal issues, and many others.
The consultations that come with personalized supplementation are designed to meet your health goals. It’s not a computer-generated formula that may or may not have some of the nutrients you need.
If you’re thinking all this takes too much time, it might be surprising to know that the timeframes can vary, depending on your goals. In some cases, you can complete a simple health assessment and have a nutritionist review the evaluation to develop a supplement routine that truly caters to you.
You’ll get a personalized vitamin pack that you use each day to take your supplements and nourish your body with exactly what it needs and none of what it doesn’t.
One of the concerns many of our patients have at first is the cost. You may think that going to your regular doctor saves you money because your insurance pays for most of it. Yet, healthcare fees have surged in recent years. (5) Once you give the clinic your copay, then you’re likely to receive more bills for what your insurance provider did not cover. These can add up quickly and you end up not saving. Functional medicine may require some upfront costs, but in the long run, you can save money by not having frequent visits, not getting sick as often, and not getting bombarded with surprise fees.
We mentioned that functional medicine seeks to find the cause of your healthcare issues. Once the initial assessment and labs are performed, it can be a matter of designing a plan for you and advising you along the way with natural methods that don’t have all the dangerous side effects that pharmaceuticals carry.
We believe in natural medicine to treat most healthcare conditions and to help you become healthy. No one has a pharmaceutical deficiency. There are powerful nutrients you can tap into that can make dramatic differences in how you feel every day. We have made it our mission to help people become wellness warriors through nutrition and holistic therapies that work, based on scientific data and research. If you are tired of the modern medical traditions that keep you going back for more medicine with no real answers, contact us to learn more about functional medicine and how it can make a clear difference in your health, starting today.
References
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-modern-healthcare-has-place-long-patient-waiting-times-varghese/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9327826/
https://www.ama-assn.org/about/research/trends-health-care-spending
