Individualized Medicine is Now

The dawn of a new era of healthcare is upon us. The white, Anglo-Saxon, 70-kilogram-male-medicine will soon be a thing of the past. What is emerging is the healthcare of the individual. We are all biochemical, emotional, anatomic, and genetic individuals, and we need to be treated as such. Managed care is one of the best things that could have happened to the healthcare system because it operates from such an all time low that a positive change is imminent.

Our current system is a crisis care system and it is very good at that. For emergency and crisis situations western medicine is very effective and efficient. Unfortunately, applying crisis interventions to chronic conditions is very ineffective, inefficient, and costly. We spend well over a trillion dollars a year on healthcare. So, spending more than anyone else, we should be the healthiest country, right? Wrong. We are one of the sickest developed countries in the world. Why is that?

I continue to search for the answers but one the reasons may be because the pharmaceutical industry is a multi-billion dollar industry. Most of the money is spent to find ways of chasing symptoms. Although there may be a place for that, more time and money should be spent on why the symptoms are present in the first place. Many of the drugs on the market are designed to block symptoms instead of alleviate the root cause. I have never read research that said a headache is an aspirin deficiency, but that is the accepted therapy. The headache is like the oil light on our dashboard. When it turns on, do we put oil in the engine (treating the root cause) or do we just snip the wire (treating the symptom).

• Individualized medicine of the future is now
• Managed care medicine of the averages is failing
• Crisis care for chronic conditions is a square peg to a round hole
• More money is being spent but chronic conditions are increasing
• The whole is greater than the sum of its parts

Compartmentalized, specialized medicine will disappear when medicine of the individual becomes mainstream. If we go to one doctor for the heart, another doctor for the liver, and another for the kidneys, who is looking at the body as a whole and the web-like interactions between all these different compartments?

We joined the World Wide Web because we want to serve those who will not conform to or who have been failed by the medicine of the averages. Since our evaluations and therapies are not dictated by insurance companies or managed care we are free to think outside the box and consider the human body in a more individualized and comprehensive fashion. We hope that you allow us the honor of serving you.