Community Medicine Means All Are Welcome

We treat people of all ages and with most conditions.

We treat people, not patients. Each person has a different body, different goals, different habits, different challenges and different strengths. We want to understand each person, their goals and their strengths so we can support them with the information and therapeutics that will help them treat their health conditions and achieve their own health goals.

We feel strongly about making medical care accessible to all people. We work with people who have struggled with addiction, people of all genders and races, people who smoke cigarettes, people with large bodies, people with small bodies, people who have a history of self-harm, people of all abilities, people who make choices about diet and healthcare based on their religion, and people of all sexual orientations and practices. Our hope is that coming to the office feels like a meeting between two humans. We have information about how to diagnose illnesses, how to read labs and imaging, how to connect people with community resources that will help them eat more vegetables or do more of what they enjoy doing and how herbs and nutrients work while the person who comes to the office is the expert on their own body. We respect people’s life experiences, perspectives and values and we believe that we all have a unique way of being human.

CONFIDENTIALITY

Our practice resembles a small-town clinic in that we often see multiple members of the same family, church or workplace. We take confidentiality seriously because people share things with us that they do not share with other people. We know that in order to be a good doctor, we need people to trust us with personal information. Therefore, we do not tell anyone’s story but our own and we do not identify someone as a person I have seen in the office unless they disclose that information.