Functional Medicine Consult

EDWARD LEVITAN, MD • WENDIE TRUBOW, MD, MBA
ALEX BINGHAM, MD • MARY JO MACKINNON, FNP-C

At Visions Medical Center, our medical staff uses the principles of functional medicine as the basic approach to optimizing the health of each individual.

These principles represent a true paradigm shift in medical practice toward:

  • An understanding of the biochemical individuality of each human being;
  • Awareness of evidence that supports a patient-centered, rather than a disease- centered approach to treatment;
  • The search for a dynamic balance among the internal and external factors in a patient’s body, mind and spirit;
  • Familiarity with the web-like interconnections of internal physiological factors;
  • Identification of health as a positive vitality—not merely the absence of disease—emphasizing those factors that encourage the enhancement of a vigorous physiology; and
  • Promotion of organ reserve as the means to enhance the health span, not just the life span of each patient.

We recognize that science and evidence in many forms are valuable to an innovative and clinically-relevant model of care.

 

With acknowledgment to the authors of Textbook of Functional Medicine, David Jones MD, Editor in Chief, 2005.