How Patients Benefit from Integrative Medicine Over the last several years, as more people have embraced a healthier lifestyle, integrative medicine has surged in popularity. Despite that, many patients who would benefit from its scientifically-validated therapies, do not quite understand what the practice involves. At the American Board of Physician …
Read MorePhysician Reverses Own Conditions With Integrative Medicine Doctors are all healthy, and they rarely get sick. These are common misconceptions you may have heard before. The reality is that, while physicians may have all the information they need to keep their patients and themselves healthy, they often neglect their own …
Read MoreIntegrative Medicine Is a Patient-Centered Model Samanda Durand, DO, a Diplomate of the American Board of Physicians Specialties® (ABPS) and integrative medicine practitioner in Nevada, credits her patients for inspiring her to embrace integrative medicine. “I was seeing patients with lots of chronic conditions who were not only dealing with …
Read MoreKnowledge of Integrative Medicine Theresa Oswald, MD, an integrative medicine physician and Diplomate of the American Board of Physician Specialties® (ABPS), has spent many years studying ways to optimize the health and wellness of her patients in mind, body, and spirit. She has also been a lifelong student of yogic …
Read MorePatient Experience With Integrative Medicine in Primary Care Integrative medicine, as defined by the Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine and the American Board of Integrative Medicine® (ABOIM), is the medical practice that reaffirms the patient-practitioner relationship, focuses on the patient as a whole person, arrives at conclusions …
Read MoreWhy More Doctors Are Embracing Scientifically Sound Integrative Medicine An experienced physician knows that even when patients of the same age and with the same illness display similar symptoms, their treatment plans may be markedly different. This is because a physician must take into account a host of factors, including …
Read MoreAn ABOIM Diplomate’s Personal Journey into Integrative Medicine Over the course of her career, Dr. Amy Baruch, an Emergency Medicine physician at St. Luke’s Regional Medical Center in Boise, Idaho, observed that the majority of her patients have multiple chronic medical issues. These are often paired with a long list …
Read MoreGrowing Trend Toward Integrative Medicine A new report by the consultancy Pure Branding says that more doctors are utilizing integrative medicine concepts in their practices. With more than 1,000 integrative MDs and DOs included, the survey was the largest pool of currently practicing integrative physicians ever surveyed in a landscape …
Read MoreIntegrative Medicine is the Solution to Chronic Illness From alleviating symptoms of heart disease to efficiently treating trauma patients, modern medicine has ushered in myriad obvious benefits. But it also comes with limitations that the medical community has been slow to recognize. Across the specialties, physicians have been trained in …
Read MoreLooking to Recruit a Highly Qualified Practitioner of Integrative Medicine? Finding a highly-qualified integrative medicine specialist to recruit is simple – thanks to the American Board of Physician Specialties® (ABPS). The ABPS is a nationally recognized multispecialty certifying body that serves the certification and recertification needs of qualified allopathic and …
Read MoreMedical organizations throughout North America understand that our rigorous certification standards prove that ABPS Diplomates are capable of delivering the best patient care possible.
