Caregiver
As a caregiver, you have a job that changes constantly depending on your loved one’s health and needs. You deal with expectations and feel many emotions. Being a caregiver can…
Primary Care
Incorporating integrative medicine into mainstream primary care practices enables physicians and other health care providers to: Deliver higher quality care Improve patient outcomes and satisfaction Lower costs Reduce burnout If…
7 Healthy Habits to Treat Yourself With
As a caregiver, you have a job that changes constantly depending on your loved one’s health and needs. You deal with expectations and feel many emotions. Being a caregiver can…
How One Doctor Helped Change the Way Patients Experience Primary Care
As a primary care provider in San Francisco’s Mission District for 32 years, Dr. Bodenheimer took care of low-income, mostly Latina patients. He did his best to make their lives…
How to Make the Most Out of Your Role as a Caregiver
As a caregiver, you have a unique set of needs and great strengths that help you navigate your journey. Caregivers face a constantly evolving role that changes with the health…
Cancer Series Part I: An Integrative Approach to Cancer Care
Cancer is a complex illness and being diagnosed with cancer sets off multiple reactions and changes – mind, body, and spirit. While the initial activities involve conventional methods, such as…
How Our Government Can Improve Our Healthcare System
It’s clear that the US healthcare system needs changing. The costs are too high and the results too poor. The system also needs changing because our patients have changed. What…
Healing Tool Series: Personalized Care Planning for Medically Complex Patients in Primary Care
Journal article about using personalized care plan to improve care for medically complex, high-need patients. “Healing Tools” summaries are a collection of evidence-based resources to help providers and patients use integrative…
The One Aspect of Healing Our Healthcare System Gets Wrong
When I began practice as a young doctor, I thought that the treatments I gave to patients were the primary reason they got well. But after almost 40 years of…