Pioneering a 21st Century Approach to Optimal Health
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According to Dr. David Edelberg, founder of American WholeHealth, “by the mid-1990s this country’s quality of healthcare was being dictated by the HMO mandate of the physician being a primary care gatekeeper: one patient every 10 minutes, interrupting him/her (if you believe the statistics) 14 seconds into the encounter and tossing off a prescription or two before moving to the next room.”
According to Dr. Stephen Sinatra, “Conventional medical care relies on acute crisis intervention, pharmacology and surgery when treating disease.”
Today we are experiencing the onset of a major paradigm shift to integrative medicine, self-managed natural health and nutritional intervention as the imperatives to total health and productive longevity.
The 17 individuals featured in this special section have distinguished themselves as the
pioneers in and practitioners of this new patient-centered, wellness-oriented medicine. Together with thousands of other committed people, they represent the potential for optimal health “to become as inalienable a birth right in this country as life liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” suggests totalhealth associate editor Robert Crayhon.
Click on the image to visit the profile of each one of these contributers
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