When I was a little girl, I was always the nurse whenever anyone got hurt. I cleaned the wound with merthiolate turning the skin bright red and carefully applied a bandaid.
I was inspired by TV heroes like Doc Baker on Little House on the Prairie and Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman. It wasn’t just their medical skills that impressed me, it was the passion with which they cared for their patients and their communities.
They didn’t simply try to cover up symptoms with medications and they always took into consideration the life circumstances of each person. They took time to listen and they cared for their patients like family. They truly practiced integrative care.
What the heck happened?
How did our healthcare system get so broken? How did it become so profit-based instead of people-based? How did our time with our providers become 10 minutes (if we’re lucky)? How did we get focused on surgery and medications as the only solutions?
The answers to all of that are complicated and I sure don’t know them all!
What I do know is that I’m dedicated to bringing back that old school vibe. I want my clients to feel heard, to have time to tell me the whole story. I take into account the whole life situation for each person. I don’t reach for solutions that simply mask symptoms.
Even in the natural medicine scene, well-meaning providers have forgotten how to deeply care about people. I’m seeing supplements used like substitutions for prescription drugs. I see treatments continuing to be focused on treating the physical body and very little attention being paid to the emotional or spiritual bodies
When I became a NP and worked in a holistic practice, I advanced my knowledge and learned about specialty testing and supplements as treatments. I continue to use these modalities and find them very valuable. My concern with all of this has been that the “root of the problem” rarely starts as a physical symptom and when we only work with the physical body, we are missing the boat on true wellness.
We understand when something big happens like a death in the family, that physical symptoms might ensue. I wonder why we forget that smaller circumstances also cause physical symptoms, for example, headaches from stress, gut issues from worry, and even more subtle shifts.
When someone got sick on the prairie, Doc Baker helped them get comfortable and then set out to learn what was really going on. He knew that figuring out where the problem was really coming from was the only way to truly bring about a “cure”.
That’s how I do things at FLOURISH…old school care, taking care of you as a whole person, and finding the least-invasive, yet most-effective means to help you feel better and get on with living life.
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