We pride ourselves on providing the best possible experience for our patients during their office visits. We schedule each one for a ample time to discuss your health and wellness with your chosen practitioner. In order to get the most out of each of your visits with us (or any physician for that matter), here are some useful tips.
- Understand the importance of communication. If you can’t share exactly what is happening with your physician, then how can you ensure you’re getting the best care?
- It’s important to discuss all of your symptoms and other issues during your office visit. This will allow our physicians to more accurately make decisions about your treatment protocol. It’s also important to accurately state your level of compliance with the given treatment protocol.
- Patients who have better communication and better compliance have stated an overall higher reduction in symptoms.
- Write things down. Bring a notebook, iPad, or even a sheet of paper to take notes on.
- Writing down your symptoms and questions before the office visit will allow you to not forget anything important. Taking notes of what the physician says about your health, overall wellness and important notes or resources will allow you to review later.
- Our physicians are very well educated in a myriad of topics and many times we throw a lot of information at you in a short amount of time. Writing it down will insure you get the most information out of your session.
- Know your Habits. Your diet, exercise, sleep and social habits are all very important to your overall health. Understanding and tracking these accurately can help our physicians better understand the overall picture of your health and provide the best treatment and wellness options.
- In many cases we use blood tests to establish objective baselines of your health. However, the reduction of your symptoms is the most important goal, and we will look to you to accurately describe how you have been improving over time.
- Your brain likes to trick you into living in the present. The best way to accurately track how you have been feeling, sleeping, eating, etc… is to write everything down.
- The importance of validated research. We are bombarded by anecdotal evidence, well-funded claims, advertisement campaigns and various media storms every day surrounding our health and wellness. In many cases it is more important to understand the validity of your source than it is to digest all the information you can find on a topic.
- Our physicians are up to speed on the latest research in line with the services we offer, as well as quite a bit else, and you can trust that we have done our homework and can provide you with the supporting evidence to validate our claims. Feel free to ask for supporting evidence for anything you are curious about.
- It’s important to get valid information from legitimate sources. Just because you see New York Times or CNN on the article or news report does not mean it is valid, legitimate, or will have any effect on you. Peer-reviewed journals and articles are the best place to go for your research.
- There is a huge difference between “Based on Science” and Validated by Science.” Validated by science means that multiple peer-reviewed articles have been published and case studies have shown an overwhelmingly positive result. Based on science means a firm is trying to use the word science to trick you into believing their product will help you.
- Delays. If you are sitting in our waiting room for any amount of time past your scheduled appointment time, it’s because we are giving another patient our utmost attention and care. Ask one of our patient coordinators for an iPad to practice HeartMath Biofeedback, watch an informative video about Neurofeedback, or grab a copy of Dr. Brown’s book, The Youth Effect. We will be with you shortly and you will receive the same great level of care as always.